A  HISTORY 


of  the 


SECOND  DIVISION      NAVAL  MILITIA 

CONNECTICUT 
NATIONAL    GUARD 


By 
DANIEL  D.  BIDWELL 


Hartford,  Conn. 
1911 


Copyrighted  1911 


By 
DANIEL  D.  BIDWELL 


The  Smith-Linsley  Company 
Hartford,  Conn. 


Dedicated 


All   Friends 

of  the 
Naval  Militia 

Connecticut   National   Guard 


2013222 


SLIGHTLY  ADAPTED 


"Here's  to  the  land  that  gave  us  birth, 

Here's  to  her  smiling  skies, 
Here's  to  her  Tars,  the  best  on  earth, 
Here's  to  the  flag  she  flies." 


Before  the  Launching 
The  Launching  - 


-  1890101896 


THE    LOG 

V 

Course  i,     The  Cincinnati  1896  fg 

Course  2,     The  Maine  1897  ig 

Course  3,     The  War    -  1898  21 

Course  4,     The  Prairie  1899  25 

"Dewey  Day"  -          September  30,  1899  26 

Course  5,     The  Prairie    Again  -          -     -  -     1900  32 

Course  6,     Camp   Newton      ------  1901  34 

Course  7,    The  Panther 1902  38 

Course  8,     At  Niantic  1903  42 

Course  9,     The  Hartford  1904  46 

Course  10,  The  Columbia      -  1905  51 

Course  11,  The  Minneapolis  -     -     -          -  -     1906  55 

Course  12,  Again  the  Prairie  -     -  1907  58 

Course  13,  And  Again  the  Prairie  -  1908  62 

Course  14,  The  Machias  -  1909  65 

Course  15,  The  Louisiana  1910  66 


(For  the  Future  to  Reveal) 


Course  16,  - 

Course  17,  - 

Course  18,  - 

Course  19,  - 

Course  20,  - 


1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 


Appendix  A-------------      68 

Appendix  B 70 


LIST   OF    ILLUSTRATIONS 

* 

PAGE 

Frontispiece — First    Commanding    Officer    of    the 
Division,  Lieutenant  Felton  Parker 

Captain  Louis  F.  Middlebrook     ------  IO 

Division  Boat  Race  in  Boston  Harbor   -     -     -     -  24 

Lieutenant-Commander  Lyman  Root     -     -     -     -  26 

Camp  Parker    ------------  35 

Boat  Crew  at  Charles  Island    -------  ^\ 

Furling  Sail  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Hartford     •  46 

Lieutenant  Howard  J.  Bloomer    ------  49 

Lieutenant-Commander  Robert  D.   Chapin     -     -  53 

Lieutenant  Carroll  C.  Beach     -------  55 

Lieutenant  (Junior  Grade)  Charles  L.  Hogan     -  59 

Ensign  Frank  H.  Burns     --------  55 

Lieutenant  William   G.    Hinckley  -----  57 

Tailpiece,  Division  Pin    -- 76 


JACOB'S    LADDER 

* 

Founding  of  the  Division          -     -     April  29,  1896 

Duty  on  the  U.  S.  S.  Maine  -    -      July  10-16,  1897 

War  Company  Mustered  In  -          June  15,  1898 

"Dewey  Day"  Parade  -         -      September  30,  1899 

First  Battalion  Field  Day    -  May  23,  1900 

Salute  to  the  New  Century    -     -     -  January  i,  1901 

Personal  Escort  of  President  Roosevelt  in  Yale 
Bi-Centennial  Parade  -     -    -      October  16,  1901 

First  Annual  Indoor  Meet    -     -    February  21,  1902 
Camp  Parker  Dedicated  -  July    4,  1902 

In   Army   and   Navy   Maneuvers,   August   30 
to  -    September  6,  1902 

Beat   Champions    in    Eleven-Inning   Game  of 
Indoor  Baseball  -  -  March  n,  1903 

Duty  at  Camp  Reynolds  -          -  August  22-29,  1903 

Re-stocking  of  the  Library           November  18,  1903 

Elfrida  in  Hartford  Waters  -           June  19-25,  1904 

On  the  U.  S.  S.  Hartford   -   September  6-13,  1904 
Indoor   Baseball  Champions   for   Season   1904-1905 

Hampton  Roads  -----     August  1-6,  1907 

In  Bridge  Parade      -    -    -    -      October  8,  1908 

Wall -Scaling  Champions  -    -    -     April  29,  1909 

First  Memorial  Sunday      -    -    -      June  13,  1909 

Off  Bermuda July  26-29,  1910 


FIRST  COMMANDING  OFFICER 


LIEUTENANT   FBI/TON   PARKER 


FOREWORD 


THAT  the  Naval  Division  is  worthy  of  a  history 
in  enduring  form  is  undeniable ;  that  it  is 
worthy  of  a  'historian  of  more  philosophy  and 
patience  is  also  undeniable.  But  if  the  principle 
is  correct  that  "any  weather  is  better  than  none,"  as  Mark 
Twain,  who  once  produced  a  treatise  on  navigation  which 
he  called  "Following  the  Equator,"  summarized  his  opin- 
ion of  the  elements,  then  it  may  be  correct  to  allege  that 
this  history  is  better  than  no  attempt.  Frojn  newspaper 
files  which  have  long  lain  in  unhallowed  dust,  from  scrap- 
books  long  undisturbed,  from  orders  and  records  and  liter- 
ature which  has  received  no  generic  name  and  from  the 
lips  of  survivors  of  a  glorious  but  ancient  day  the 
historian  has  drawn  the  facts  which  follow.  The  research 
work  has  been  difficult  and  a  task  of  no  mean  proportion, 
as  well,  and  the  work  of  arrangement  and  assimilation 
has  not  been  inconsiderable,  and  there  is  reasonable 
excuse  for  any  errors  which  may  appear  in  the  printed 
result.  For  these  the  historian  begs  indulgence.  He  de- 
sires to  add  that  the  task  has  been  a  pleasant  one  in  spite 
of  the  difficulty  and  that  his  only  regret  is  that  a  history 
more  adequate  is  not  the  result. 

In  any  case  the  trail  has  been  blazed,  or,  to  use  a 
more  appropriate  metaphor,  the  channel  has  been  buoyed 
for  'him  who  is  destined  to  produce  a  suitable  volume 
when  the  Second  Division  shall  have  arrived  at  its  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary.  That  the  command  may  continue 
to  prosper  and  that  it  may  ever  be  as  efficient  and  suc- 
cessful as  in  its  most  honorable  days  is  the  earnest  wish 
of  its  chronicler. 

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10  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 

Thanks  are  expressed  to  Lieutenant  (Junior  Grade) 
Charles  L.  Hogan  and  Quartermaster  Palmer  (the  divi- 
sion librarian)  of  the  actives  and  to  Victor  F.  Morgan, 
historian  of  the  Veteran  Association,  for  aid  given  in 
the  collating  of  material  for  this  little  volume.  Thanks 
are  also  given  to  Captain  Louis  F.  Middlebrook  and 
Mr.  Fred  E.  Bosworth. 

HARTFORD,  CONNECTICUT,  June  28,  1911. 


CAPTAIN  LOUIS    F.  MIDDLEBROOK 
THE    FOUNDER   OP  THE  DIVISION 


BEFORE   THE    LAUNCHING 


IN  the  early  'nineties  the  so-called,  and  perhaps  mis- 
called movement   for  "Naval   Reserves"  came  into 
Connecticut.  In  1893  it  gathered  shape  in  New  Haven 
and  on  the  petition  of   Edward  G.   Buckland  and 
forty-four  others,  General  Edward  E.  Bradley  of  New 
Haven,  adjutant-general  under  Governor  Luzon  B.  Mor- 
ris, issued  an  order  for  the  formation  of  the  First  Divi- 
sion, Naval  Militia,  C.  N.  G.     In  November  of  that  year 
a  division  was  organized,  a  month  pregnant  with  mean- 
ing in  the  annals  of  the  naval  establishment  of  Connecti- 
cut, for  it  marked  the  institution  of  a  branch  destined  to 
endure  and  to  be  a  just  cause  of  pride  to  the  state  of 
Hull,  Gideon  Welles  and  Foote. 

The  formation  of  the  First  Division  followed  barely 
two  years  after  that  of  the  First  Naval  Battalion  in 
New  York  state.  Massachusetts  had  preceded  the  Empire 
State  by  more  than  fifteen  months,  and  Rhode  Island 
by  about  a  year,  and  when  the  command  in  New  Haven 
organized,  the  states  which  boasted  naval  militia  organ- 
izations were  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  New  York, 
North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  California,  Pennsylvania 
and  Illinois.  The  total  strength  of  the  naval  militia  in 
these  states  was  about  2.100  officers  and  enlisted  men. 

It  was  in  March.  1890,  that  the  first  command  of  the 
kind  appeared  in  Massachusetts,  and  in  the  following 
May  that  the  Naval  Battalion,  Massachusetts  Volunteer 
Militia,  pioneer  among  "Naval  Reserve"  organizations  in 
the  United  States,  was  organized.  From  that  germ  has 
grown  a  system  which  now  includes  naval  militia  bodies 


12  SECOND  DIVISION   NAVAL   MILITIA 

in  twenty-three  states  and  has  on  the  rosters  between 
seven  thousand  and  eight  thousand  officers  and  enlisted 
men;  and  has  recorded  several  times  that  number  of 
alumni  who  are  in  part  trained  for  the  country's  hour 
of  need  on  salt  water. 

Interesting  stories  about  the  First  Division  of  New 
Haven  came  to  the  ears  of  many  lovers  of  salt  water  in 
Hartford.  Stories  they  were  of  the  splendid  success  of 
that  crack  command,  the  good  times  which  the  fun  lovers 
of  the  company  enjoyed,  the  good  fellowship  shown,  the 
capacity  for  hard  technical  work  and  the  growing  esteem 
in  which  it  was  'held  both  by  the  adjutant- general's  office 
and  the  Navy  Department  at  Washington.  And  so  it 
was  that  a  little  knot  of  similar  spirits  in  Hartford  was 
formed,  men  with  fondness  for  yachting  on  the  Sound 
or  with  patriotic  pride  in  the  Navy  who  gravitated 
together  after  a  nucleus  had  been  developed. 

The  proposition  for  a  naval  company  was  received 
with  a  diversity  of  opinion.  One  military  man  of  ripe 
experience  raked  it  fore  and  aft  in  print,  but  in  after 
years  he  discovered  the  error  of  his  range  finder  and 
became  a  firm  friend  of  the  command  in  fair  weather  and 
foul.  His  memory  long  remained  green  with  the  company. 


THE    LAUNCHING 

* 

IT  is  recorded  that  most  of  the  originators  of  this 
movement  were  employees  of  the  Pope  Manufacturing 
Company  or  were  members  of  the  Hartford  Canoe 

Club,  and  that  some  were  luminaries  in  a  social  body 
known  to  fame  as  The  Bachelors,  but  this  last  declaration 
is  disputed.  It  was  on  March  14,  1896,  that  an  application 
to  Governor  O.  Vincent  Coffin  of  Middletown,  Com- 
mander-in-chief of  the  Connecticut  National  Guard,  for 
the  establishing  of  another  division  was  drafted.  The 
paper  was  guardedly  circulated  by  Louis  F.  Middlebrook, 
then  a  member  of  the  Brigade  Signal  Corps,  to  whom  in 
large  measure  the  credit  of  the  subsequent  birth  of  the 
command  is  due.  On  April  1 1  the  application  was  pre- 
sented to  His  Excellency  together  with  details  as  to  the 
cost  of  equipment,  armory  quarters  and  like  matters. 
Just  eighteen  days  later  the  governor's  consent  was  sig- 
nified in  an  order  which  Adjutant-General  Charles  P. 
Graham  issued  for  the  formation  of  the  Second  Division, 
Naval  Battalion,  Connecticut  National  Guard.  That  date 
is  entered  in  the  division's  log  as  its  natal  day. 

On  the  evening  of  May  12,  Commander  Edward  V. 
Reynolds  of  the  battalion  and  officers  from  the  division  in 
New  Haven  materialized  in  the  even  then  ancient  armory 
on  Elm  Street,  never  before  that  night  used  for  any  naval 
object.  A  division  was  formed  and  officers  were  elected 
as  follows : 

Lieutenant,  Felton  Parker. 

Lieutenant,  Junior  Grade,  Lyman  B.  Perkins. 

Ensigns,  Louis  F.  Middlebrook  and  Robert  H.  C. 
Kelton. 


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Mr.  Parker  was  a  graduate  of  Annapolis,  who  had 
left  the  Navy  at  the  reduction  in  1882,  and  was  at  the 
time  in  the  employ  of  the  Pope  Manufacturing  Company 
in  the  patent  department.  Mr.  Perkins  had  graduated  in 
1881  from  Annapolis  as  a  cadet  engineer.  He  was  a 
general  agent  for  the  Hartford  Steam  Boiler  Inspection 
and  Insurance  Company.  Mr.  Middlebrook  was  in  the 
same  company's  employ  and  possessed  large  executive 
ability.  Mr.  Kelton  was  a  mechanical  engineer  in  the 
employ  of  the  Hartford  Rubber  Works.  He  had  been  a 
member  of  Division  C  of  the  First  Naval  Battalion  of 
Massachusetts. 

The  enlisted  men  were  forty  in  number.  Their 
names  follow : 


Alden,  H.  W. 

Fairfield,  E.  J. 

Morrell,  D.  S. 

Baxter,  G.   S. 

Field,  E.  B. 

Newell,  J.  L. 

Beale,  G.  W. 

Field,  F.  E. 

Northam,  R.  C. 

Bevins,  V.  L. 

Gilbert,  E.  R. 

Osgood,  W.  J. 

Bissell,  H.  G. 

Harlow,  M.  P. 

Rice,  C.  D. 

Bosworth,  F.  E. 

Heymann,  H.  B. 

Root,  Lyman 

Burnett,  A.   E. 

Hunt,  B.  A. 

Stevens,  H. 

Burnham,  P.  D.* 

Ingalls,  F.  C. 

Walsh,  J.  G. 

Caswell,  L.  S. 

Larkum,  H.  H. 

Wightman,  A.  H. 

Cheney,  T.  S.* 

Larkum,  W.  N. 

Williams,  C.  C. 

Cochran,  L.  B. 

Maxim,  H.  P. 

Wilson,  L.  B. 

Crowell,  E.  H. 

Miller,  G.  P. 

Winslow,  F.  G. 

Cuntz,  H.  F. 

Miller,  H.  I. 

Woodward,  C.  S. 

Morgan,  J.  H. 

The  division  was  the  armory's  baby  and  the  sailor 
uniform  and  the  sailor  drill  were  observed  with  the 
greatest  of  kindly  interest ;  and,  by  the  way,  that  interest 
survives  to  this  day. 

By  the  middle  of  June  the  company  was  in  fairish 
shape  in  regard  to  uniform  and  equipment,  but  was  shy 

*  Deceased. 


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of  flat  caps.  On  the  evening  of  June  24  the  first  petty 
officers  were  appointed,  the  selections  being  awaited  with 
the  keenest  curiosity.  The  appointees  were: 

First  Class — Boatswain's  Mate,  Daniel  S.  Morrell ; 
Gunner's  Mate,  Louis  B.  Wilson. 

Second  Class — Boatswain's  Mate,  Edward  H.  Crow- 
ell  ;  Gunner's  Mate,  Walter  L.  Meek ;  Quartermasters, 
Thomas  S.  Cheney  and  Edwin  R.  Gilbert. 

Third  Class — Gunner's  Mate,  Charles  D.  Rice ;  Cox- 
swains, Robert  C.  Northam,  Frank  H.  Peltier  and 
Herman  F.  Cuntz,  and  Bugler  Herbert  G.  Bissell. 

On  the  same  June  evening,  orders  were  read  to  stand 
by  for  the  division's  first  cruise.  That  duty  was  on  the 
U.  S.  S.  Cincinnati,  a  protected  cruiser. 


COURSE    ONE 


THE  CINCINNATI 

A  6:45  Saturday  morning,  July  u,  the  division 
to  the  number  of  forty-six  entrained  for  New 
Haven  and  by  8  o'clock  was  on  board  the  Cin- 
cinnati, as  she  lay  off  the  breakwater.    An  hour 
later  the  cruiser  weighed  anchor  and  headed  down  the 
Sound,  landing  the  divisions  of  the  battalion  on  Gardiner's 
Island,  where  they  went  into  camp.     Till  late  Sunday 
evening  it  was  hard  work  and  plenty  of  it,  but  the  mettle 
of  the  division  was  shown  in  the  test.     Part  of  Sunday 
evening  was  spent  in  "hustling  ice,"  as  one  member  ex- 
pressed it  in  a  letter.     Near  by  were  naval  militiamen 
from  Rhode  Island  and  New  York. 

Monday  morning  found  the  division  embarking  for 
the  Cincinnati,  on  which  instruction  was  given  during  the 
day  in  gun,  fire  and  collision  drills.  For  the  great  majority 
of  the  men  it  was  their  first  real  experience  in  work  on  a 
warship,  and  the  novelty  and  excitement  were  fascinating. 
The  following  day  there  was  drill  in  pulling  boats  with 
the  new  coxswains  on  their  mettle. 

A  couple  of  days  more  of  life  in  camp  and  on  the  Cin- 
cinnati with  good  weather  did  much  towards  starting  the 
men  toward  man-o'-war  form,  or  so  some  of  them  began 
to  think.  Tanned  faces,  pipes  and  plug  tobacco  came  into 
full  evidence.  For  some  it  was,  perhaps,  a  picnic  in  the 
open  salt  air,  but  an  outing  in  which  discipline  was  strictly 
preserved  and  much  practical  information  was  acquired. 

Thursday  morning  reveille  was  sounded  at  Camp 
McAdoo  at  5  o'clock  and  simultaneously  rain  began  to 


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fall.  After  mess  the  battalion  struck  the  tents,  turned  to 
on  camp  gear  and  transferred  nine  boatloads  from  the 
island  to  the  Cincinnati.  Most  of  the  men  were  in  water 
to  their  waists.  Between  the  fresh  and  the  salt  they  were 
not  incompletely  drenched,  but  their  hearts  were  gay  and 
when  the  boats  were  hove  up  they  tailed  on  the  falls 
with  a  will. 

In  New  Haven  there  was  a  short  street  parade  and 
when,  in  the  Meadow  Street  Armory,  the  First  Division 
boys  saluted  and  cheered  the  Second,  the  tour  of  duty 
was  pronounced  to  be  a  glorious  success.  On  the  station 
platform  in  Hartford  on  the  arrival  of  the  Second  Divi- 
sion that  evening  was  a  motley  of  fathers  and  mothers, 
kid  brothers,  best  girls  and  other  landlubbers,  all  eager 
to  welcome  the  homefaring  tin  tars.  The  men  fell  in  on 
the  platform  and  gave  this  highly  original  cheer : 

"Hi,  ye-ke,  hi !  Ree,  Ree,  Ree ! 
Naval  Battalion,  C.  N.  G. 
Second  Division." 

This  may  sound  at  this  distant  day  like  a  rather 
slender  battle  cry,  but  the  boys  of  the  division  ranked  it 
with  the  "Brek-e-Ke-Kex"  of  the  Yale  Gridiron. 

The  historian  admits  giving  undue  prominence  to  that 
tour  of  duty,  but  begs  indulgence  on  the  ground  that  it 
was  the  division's  first  service  on  salt  water. 


COURSE   TWO 


THE  MAINE 

IN  a  few  months  the  division  was  carefully  recruited 
and  when  the  drill  season  started  it  was  little  effort 
for  jack  o'  the  dust  to  report  a  tidy  sum  in  the  treas- 
ury.  The  division  parlor  was  artistically  decorated. 
Along  the  frieze  was  painted  a  stretch  of  blue  water  of 
dipsy  hue  on  which  was  developed  some  of  the  most  star- 
tling advances  in  shipbuilding.     A  craft  of  the  time  of 
Hiero,  a  Roman  galley,  a  Viking  ship,  a  French  frigate  of 
the  sixteenth  century,  a  warship  of  Revolutionary  days, 
one  of  the  time  of  Hull  and  then  the  battleship  Indiana 
were  pictured.     In  a  way  the  series  traced  the  develop- 
ment of  sea  power. 

The  months  of  that  drill  season  wore  by  pleasantly, 
the  boys  at  work  mainly  at  infantry,  for  somehow  in  those 
days  the  real  province  of  naval  militiamen  was  not  clearly 
lined  out,  but  with  a  bit  of  single-stick  work  and  some 
signalling,  and  when  the  end  of  the  season  arrived  most 
of  the  men  were  well  acquainted  with  the  work  which  had 
been  laid  out. 

It  was  on  the  battleship  Maine  that  the  yearly  lessons 
afloat  were  learned.  The  battleship  Texas  had  been 
assigned  for  the  duty,  but  it  became  necessary  to  dry  dock 
her  for  repairs,  and  her  sister  ship  took  her  place.  Ensign 
Louis  F.  Middlebrook  with  Boatswain's  Mate  Crowell, 
Quartermaster  Wightman,  Coxswains  Osgood  and  Meek 
and  Seamen  Doran,  Mather,  J.  Morgan  Wells,  Gilbert 
and  Baxter  constituted  the  baggage  detail,  which 


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sailed  from  the  steamboat  landing  at  7  130  on  the  morning 
of  Saturday,  July  17,  on  the  tug  J.  Warren  Coulston  for 
Fisher's  Island. 

The  detail  pitched  camp  on  rising  ground  in  the  rear 
of  the  Hotel  Munnatawket,  not  far  from  the  site  of  the 
battalion's  camp  some  five  years  later. 

The  Maine  lay  at  anchor  in  Fisher's  Island  Sound. 
The  remainder  of  the  division  went  by  rail  to  New  Haven 
on  the  following  Monday  morning  and  sailed  for  the 
island  on  the  steamer  Richard  Law.  The  two  divisions 
with  the  engineer  branch  and  the  staff  made  the  battalion 
nearly  140  strong. 

Captain  Sigsbee  was  in  command  of  the  ship,  the  same 
officer  who  was  in  command  when  the  tragedy  in  the  har- 
bor of  Havana  happened  seven  months  later.  His  face 
became  familiar  to  most  of  our  men,  as  did  also  that  of 
Lieutenant  Wainwright,  executive  officer  at  the  time  of 
the  explosion,  and  when  that  tragedy  came  the  horror 
had  a  personal  as  well  as  a  patriotic  interest  for  many 
members  of  the  Second  Division,  who  remembered  by 
name  and  face  many  a  man  in  the  ship's  complement. 

Most  of  the  work  was  at  Camp  Long  or  in  small 
boats,  but  not  a  little  was  on  the  ship,  where  gun  drill 
was  among  the  most  interesting  of  the  branches.  A  lec- 
ture on  the  Whitehead  torpedo  was  a  feature  of  the 
curriculum. 

One  afternoon  during  the  tour  of  duty  on  the  Maine, 
the  signal  squads  of  the  First  and  the  Second  Divisions 
met  in  a  contest  for  a  trophy  cup  and  the  squad  from  the 
Second  won.  The  winning  team  included  Quartermasters 
Cheney  and  Wightman  and  Seamen  Bosworth  and 
V.  Morgan. 

It  is  interesting  to  hark  back  to  the  Maine  days  and  to 
record  that  a  racing  cutter  crew  was  evolved  and  that  it 
received  some,  if  not  much,  instruction  and  encourage- 
ment from  men  on  the  Maine.  Out  of  the  mist  of  that 


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week  it  is  recorded  that  this  crew  was  made  up  of  these 
oarsmen :  First,  Seaman  Baxter ;  Second,  Quartermaster 
Wightman ;  Third,  Coxwain  Osgood ;  Fourth,  Seaman 
Wells ;  Fifth,  Gunner's  Mate  Root ;  Sixth,  Seaman 
Havens ;  Seventh,  Seaman  Gilbert ;  Eighth,  Boatswain's 
Mate  Morrell ;  Ninth,  Coxswain  Northam  ;  Tenth,  Seaman 
Ingalls ;  Eleventh,  Gunner's  Mate  Cuntz,  and  Twelfth, 
Seaman  J.  Morgan.  Without  experience  the  crew  con- 
tested with  the  crack  twelve  of  the  New  Haven  Division 
and  was  beaten  only  by  three-quarters  of  a  boat  length. 

The  Hartford  Division  returned  on  the  tugs  Coulston 
and  Mabel,  arriving  at  the  steamboat  landing  in  the  early 
evening. 


COURSE   THREE 


THE   WAR 

BARELY  was  the  next  drill  season  well  inaugu- 
rated when  the  Maine  sailed  for  Havana, 
and  then  came  the  terrible  disaster  in  which 
many  of  the  division's  shipmates  were  hurled 
into  eternity,  and  next  the  preparation  for  the 
approaching  conflict  with  Spain.  In  April,  the 
First  Regiment  marched  away,  the  division  remaining 
eager  for  the  coming  call.  Each  drill  evening  the  men 
put  heart,  energy  and  sustained  attention  into  the  work. 
Drills  took  place  on  the  park  in  the  presence  of  citizens 
who  paid  their  tributes  of  respect  to  the  sailor  blue.  Each 
member  was  urged  to  train  physically,  as  well  as  to  learn 
the  drills.  Seamanship,  signalling  and  such  boat  work 
as  could  be  taught  were  the  backbone  of  the  instruction. 

Finally  the  call  came  and  over  ninety  per  cent,  of  the 
division  volunteered  at  roll  call  to  enlist  in  the  United 
States  Navy  for  the  entire  conflict.  On  June  6,  the  divi- 
sion paraded  in  heavy  marching  order  up  Main  Street 
and  by  Trumbull  and  Asylum  Streets  to  the  railroad  sta- 
tion, escorted  by  posts  of  the  Grand  Army  and  by  veteran 
and  active  military  commands,  and  entrained  for  the  State 
Military  Rendezvous  in  Xiantic. 

On  June  15,  Commander  Field,  U.  S.  N.,  mustered  in 
the  command  thenceforward  known  as  the  "war  com- 
pany." Following  are  the  names  and  the  ages  with  ratings 
obtained  before  the  mustering  out  and  with  the  names  of 
the  ships  on  which  each  individual  mainly  served : 


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SECOND  DIVISION   NAVAL   MILITIA 


Henry  S.  Baldwin,  G.  M.,  ist  class,  24  Seminole 

Arthur  W.  Barber,  Landsman,  25  Minnesota 

George  S.  Baxter,  Coxswain,  22  Wyandotte 

Robert  C.  Beers,  Landsman,  26  Catskill 

Howard  Berry,  Ordinary  Seaman,  20  Wyandotte 

Henry  W.  Bigelow,  Seaman,  30  Minnesota 

Herbert  G.  Bissell,  Ordinary  Seaman,  24  Minnesota 

Fred  G.  Blakeslee,  Seaman,  30  Minnesota 

Fred  E.  Bosworth,  Quartermaster,  23  Minnesota 

Arthur  L.  Brewer,  Seaman,  21  Minnesota 

George  Brinley,  Seaman,  26  Wyandotte 

John  H.  P.  Brinley,  Seaman,  23  Wyandotte 

Henry  R.  Buck,  Seaman,  22  East    Boston 

Joseph  F.  Burke,  Landsman,  22  \Vyandotte 

Archibald  L.  Case,  Seaman,  23  Minnesota 

Henry  B.  Case,  Landsman,  19  Minnesota 

Robert  D.  Chapin,  Seaman,  22  Minnesota 

Murray  H.Coggeshall,  Q.M.,  i st  Class,  25  Wyandotte 

George  F.  Colby,  Landsman,  21  Wyandotte 

Arthur  S.  Cutting,  Landsman,  20  Minnesota 

Hermann  F.  Cuntz,  Ensign  U.  S.  N.,  26  Sylvia 

Stanley  K.  Dimock,  Seaman,  20  Seminole 

Edward  J.  Doran,  Ship's  Apothecary,  24  Minnesota 

Henry  W.  Drury,  Seaman,  22  Minnesota 

Francis  E.  Field,  Seaman,  25  Minnesota 

George  C.  Forrest,  Q.  M.,  3d  Class,  29  Wyandotte 

George  Foster,  Coal  Passer,  23  Wyandotte 

Paul  Franke,  Landsman,  24  Minnesota 

Burton  L.  Gabrielle,  Ordinary  Seaman,  20  Minnesota 

Christopher  M.  Gallup,  Fireman,  22  East   Boston 

William  A.  Geer,  Landsman,  27  Minnesota 

Frank  W.  Gillette,  Ordinary  Seaman,  23  Wyandotte 

William  Goulet,  Landsman,  22  Minnesota 

James  J.  Hawley,  Q.  M.,  2d  Class,  27  Seminole 

George  A.  Holcomb,  Ord.  Seaman,  22  Seminole 

Richard  J.  Holmes,  Ordinary  Seaman,  25  Minnesota 

Charles  A.  Huntington,  Chief  G.  M.,  25  Wyandotte 


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William  M.  Kurd,  Seaman,  23  Minnesota 

Edward  Q.  Jackson,  Ord.  Seaman,        23  Minnesota 

Lorenzo  W.  Kenyon,  Seaman,  20  Minnesota 

Frank  R.  Keyes,  Chief  Quartermaster,  21  Wyandotte 

Frank  E.  Kowalsky,  Coal  Passer,  21  Seminole 

Arthur  P.  LeFever,  Landsman,  19  Minnesota 

Michael  C.  Long,  G.  M.,  2d  Class,        28  Wyandotte 

Oliver  W.  Malm,  Seaman,  25  Minnesota 

George  R.  Martin,  Ord.  Seaman,  19  Ajinnesota 

Ralph  W.  McCreary,  B.  M.,  ist  Class,  22  Wyandotte 

J.  Ward  McManus,  Seaman,  23  Minnesota 

Louis  F.  Middlebrook,  Ens'n,  U.S. N.,  32  Enquirer 

Guy  P.  Miller,  Seaman,  23  Minnesota 

Hugh  I.  Miller,  Seaman,  25  Minnesota 

James  H.  Morgan,  Q.  M.,  ist  Class,      23  Seminole 

Victor  F.  Morgan,  Seaman.  18  Minnesota 

Shiras  Morris,  Coxswain,  23  Wyandotte 

Linwood  K.  Moses,  Landsman,  20  Minnesota 

Carl  C.  Nielson,  Wardroom  Steward,  25  Seminole 

Edward  J.  Noble,  Ordinary  Seaman,     23  Minnesota 

Edwin  T.  Northam,  Seaman,  23  Minnesota 

Robert  C.  Northam,  G.  M.,  2d  Class,    25  Minnesota 

Harry  Y.  Nutter,  Seaman,  26  Minnesota 

Lauriston  F.  L.  Pynchon,  Seaman,         26  Minnesota 

Judson  B.  Root,  Ordinary  Seaman,        22  Minnesota 

Harrison  Sanford,  Ordinary  Seaman,     21  Wyandotte 

Charles  C.  Saunders,  Seaman,  22  Minnesota 

Felton  Parker,  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  N.,  38  Huntress 

Lyman  Root,  Ensign,  U.  S.  N.,  29  Elfrida 

Otto  M.  Schwerdtfeger,  Landsman,      22  Minnesota 

Albert  W.  Scoville,  Jr.,  Seaman,  21  East  Boston 

Lester  H.  Scoville,  Ordinary  Seaman,  20  East  Boston 

William  H.  Scrivener,  Seaman,  21  Minnesota 

Frederic  A.  Seaver,  Landsman,  34  Minnesota 

Freeman  P.  Seymour,  Ord.  Seaman,      34  Minnesota 

Forrest  Shepherd,  Seaman,  28  Wyandotte 

Herbert  E.  Storrs,  Seaman,  19  East  Boston 


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SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 


Morton  C.  Talcott,  Landsman,  20  Minnesota 

George  H.  Tinkham,  Landsman,  22  Wyandotte 

William  C.  Tregoning,  Seaman,  22  Seminole 

John  F.  Twardoks,  Landsman,  21  Minnesota 

Jonathan  K.  Uhler,  Seaman,  24  Minnesota 

James  D.  Wells,  Seaman,  23  Minnesota 

Richard  B.  Wells,  Coxswain,  29  Seminole 

Alanson  H.  Wightman,  Q.  M.,  ist  Cl.,  26  Seminole 

George  E.  Wilcox,  Ord.  Seaman,  21  Minnesota 

Louis  B.  Wilson,  B.  M.,  ist  Class,  26  Seminole 

Frank  L.  Young,  Cabin  Steward,  19  Wyandotte 

From  Niantic  the  division  went  to  the  receiving  ship 

Minnesota  at  the  Congress  Street  slip  in  the  Charlestown 


DIVISION    BOAT   RACE    IN   BOSTON    HARBOR 


Navy  Yard.  At  one  time  and  another  officers  were  de- 
tailed and  men  were  drafted  to  vessels  of  the  "Mosquito 
fleet,"  and  these  were  scattered  all  the  way  down  the 
coast  to  Key  West  and  the  Havana  Blockade,  Ensign 
Cuntz  on  the  Sylvia  having  the  good  fortune  to  see  the 
Morro. 


COURSE    FOUR 


THE   PRAIRIE 

FOLLOWING  the  excitement  of  the  war  summer 
came  a  reaction.  The  membership  dropped  nearly 
to  the  danger  point.  For  a  time  it  was  a  long  and 
hard  beat  to  windward,  a  trying  fight  with  wind, 
wave  and  tide.  Like  every  command  from  Connecticut 
which  served  in  the  war  with  Spain,  the  division  found 
many  of  its  best  members  returning  to  civilian  ranks, 
and  that  to  replace  them  either  numerically  or  in  quality 
required  time  and  activity.  But  new  blood  —  or  what 
might  be  called  a  saline  infusion  —  came,  and  before  the 
snows  melted  the  division  had  weathered  the  worst. 

It  was  the  Prairie  which  was  the  division's  floating 
home  on  the  cruise  taken  in  the  following  August.  On 
the  1  6th  the  battalion  sailed  from  New  Haven  harbor. 
Two  days  later  the  ship  was  off  Gloucester,  home  of  dar- 
ing fishermen,  and  the  next  day  she  was  in  Bar  Harbor. 
On  the  2ist  she  put  out  to  sea.  She  passed  outside  Nan- 
tucket  Shoals  Lightship  and  opportunity  was  given  to  the 
men  for  target  practice  with  great  guns  at  sea,  after  sub- 
caliber  coming  full  service  charges.  On  their  return 
members  of  the  division  spun  exciting  yarns  concerning 
diluted  saltpeter,  embalmed  horsehide,  hammock  ladders 
and  raids  on  the  officers'  refrigerator. 

It  is  to  be  chronicled  that  thirteen  states  were 
represented  in  naval  militia  cruises  on  the  Prairie  in  1899 
and  that  Connecticut  took  third  rank  among  them  ;  also 
that  the  Hartford  division  won  first  place  among  the 
three  divisions  from  Connecticut,  Bridgeport  having 
organized  the  Third  Division. 

4 


"DEWEY    DAY" 
SN 

PROBABLY  the  most  memorable  occasion  in  the 
history  of  the  command  was  September  30,  1899, 
"Dewey  Day,"  the  day  of  the  giant  procession  in 
New  York  City  in  honor  of  the  fine  old  hero  of 
Manila  Bay.     When  the  organizations  to  represent  this 
state  were  selected,  it  was  the  Naval  Battalion   which 


LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER    LYMAN    ROOT 

headed  the  list  of  honor.  The  First  Regiment  was  not 
upon  the  list,  but  with  honorable  patriotism  officers  of 
the  regiment  who  had  served  in  Camp  Alger  requested  of 


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Lieutenant  Lyman  Root,  Lieutenant  Parker's  successor, 
permission  to  wear  the  sailor  blue  and  carry  Spring- 
fields  in  the  division  ranks.  Men  who  had  served  in  distant 
years  in  the  wooden  navy  and  men  who  had  fought  under 
Dyer  in  Manila  Bay  and  Wainwright  in  the  combat  with 
the  Furor  and  the  Pluton  and  had  returned  to  Hartford, 
also  asked  and  received  the  same  permission. 

With  four  officers  and  112  men  the  division  swung 
out  from  the  armory  on  the  evening  of  the  29th  and  amid 
red  fire  and  with  a  band  blaring  at  the  front  paraded  to 
the  railroad  station,  envied  by  infantrymen  who  could  not 
obtain  opportunity  to  march  in  the  mammoth  procession. 
At  II  o'clock  the  company  marched  into  the  Second 
Regiment  Armory  in  New  Haven,  stacked  arms  and  was 
dismissed  for  a  midnight  lunch,  at  which  the  men  stowed 
away  steaming  coffee  and  ham  sandwiches  and  received 
strict  orders  not  to  leave  the  building.  Then  they  made 
living  pillows  of  one  another  and  slumbered  innocently 
on  benches  in  the  gallery  till  some  wee,  sma'  hour  or 
other  in  the  morning,  when  the  Second  Regiment  crashed 
out  with  "Onward  Christian  Soldiers,"  and  summoned 
them  back  to  the  world  of  consciousness  and  sin.  At 
3  o'clock  they  fell  in  and  marched  out  into  a  hospitable 
rain  punctuated  by  milkmen  and  policemen.  Three- 
quarters  of  an  hour  later  they  boarded  the  side-wheeler 
Shinnecock.  At  4  o'clock  the  steamer  got  under  way 
and  the  men  began  to  look  forward  to  a  night  of  rest. 
One  man  slept  on  his  arm  under  a  table  in  the  dining 
saloon  piled  six  feet  high  with  camp  chairs.  Another 
was  lost  to  the  world  under  the  break  of  the  pilot  house. 
Still  another  slept  on  unbaled  hay  for  the  field  officers  of 
the  Second  Regiment.  Some  slumbered  in  gangways 
and  some  on  the  paddle  boxes.  The  mathematical  boys 
of  the  division  demonstrated  the  problem  that  it  was 
possible  to  sleep  anywhere  in  space. 

Somewhere  in  the  head  of  the  Sound  the  Shinnecock 
fell  on  an  evil  time.  A  bushing  on  a  feathering  paddle 


28  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 

blade  in  the  starboard  wheel  misbehaved  and  a  bar 
buckled  and  for  three  hours  she  'drifted  while  engineers 
made  repairs.  Finally  an  emergency  landing  was  made 
in  a  convenient  coal  yard  in  Port  Morris  and  the  battalion 
trotted  at  double  time  for  two  miles  over  Harlem  cobble- 
stones, arriving  just  in  time  to  fall  in  ahead  of  General 
Oliver  O.  Howard  and  the  Grand  Army  Division. 

During  the  march  the  men  had  a  coveted  opportunity 
to  view  the  one-armed  corps  commander  at  close  range. 
Much  of  the  time  the  old  hero  was  obliged  to  ride  with 
his  bridle  rein  in  his  teeth  and  with  his  chapeau  in  his 
hand  in  response  to  the  frantic  waves  of  applause  which 
greeted  him.  The  occupants  of  the  closely  packed  stands 
along  the  line  of  march  rose  in  wildly  cheering  masses 
as  they  caught  sight  of  the  grizzled  veteran  and  the  men 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 

Down  Riverside  Drive  and  for  four  miles  in  the  heart 
of  the  city  the  battalion  marched  with  fixed  bayonets. 
It  paraded  between  solid  masses  of  cheering  citizens  and 
almost  solid  walls  of  flags  and  decorations.  At  every  halt 
the  men  were  refreshed  with  fruit,  coffee  or  drinkables, 
sandwiches  and  salads  or  cigars,  and  presented  with 
flowers  and  souvenirs.  At  one  halt  on  aristocratic  Fifth 
Avenue  a  shower  of  silk  college  sofa  cushions  came  down 
from  window  seats  and  a  Princeton  cushion  was  impaled 
on  the  historian's  bayonet. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  parade  many  of  the  division 
repaired  to  restaurants  near  Madison  Square  and  Union 
Square.  Dozens  of  them  found,  when  they  stepped  to  the 
cashiers'  coops  to  liquidate,  that  unknown  civilians  had 
obtained  their  checks  and  paid  the  bills.  A  man  in  a 
sailor  uniform  in  New  York  City  that  September  after- 
noon found  it  no  easy  task  to  spend  money.  Nothing 
was  too  good  for  the  bluejackets. 

It  is  to  be  recorded  that  Lieutenant  Cuntz,  Gunner's 
Mate  Huntington,  Coxswain  Chapin  and  Seamen 
'Noble  and  Nutter  preceded  the  battalion  to  New  York. 


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When  the  Shinnecock  failed  to  appear,  they  annexed  three 
stray  regulars  from  the  U.  S.  S.  Texas,  and  assumed  an 
advanced  place  in  the  column.  In  one  of  the  spectators' 
stands  certain  individuals  conceived  the  notion  that  the 
eight  were  Hobson  and  the  Merrimac  survivors.  In  a 
few  moments  the  word  was  passed  over  the  stand  and  the 
crowd  was  on  its  feet  in  a  wild  burst  of  applause. 

While  Dewey  Day  experiences  were  still  being  talked 
over,  arrangements  were  quietly  made  for  a  presentation 
to  the  first  commanding  officer,  Mr.  Parker,  who  was 
lured  to  Turnerbund  Hall  to  receive  from  the  command  a 
gold  watch  with  chain  and  fob,  the  chain  in  the  semblance 
of  a  stud-link  ship's  cable  and  the  fob  a  division  pin 
mounted  on  a  locket. 

More  of  the  tang  of  salt  air  and  of  the  romance  of 
the  ocean  came  one  evening  in  the  next  drill  season  when 
the  division  mustered  in  the  parlor  to  listen  to  a  talk  by 
Professor  Henry  Ferguson  of  Trinity  College,  an  'honor- 
ary member,  who  told  a  thrilling  tale  of  shipwreck  in  the 
mid-Pacific.  Professor  Ferguson  recited  the  story  of  the 
Hornet,  a  clipper  which  sailed  from  New  York  in  1866 
for  San  Francisco.  When  the  ship  was  several  hundred 
miles  off  the  Gallipagos  fire  obliged  the  crew  to  take  to 
the  three  boats,  which  were  provisioned  for  ten  days. 
It  was  decided  to  head  for  the  north,  to  keep  in  the  track 
of  San  Francisco  vessels.  Merchantmen  in  those  days 
adhered  to  Maury's  sailing  directions  and  it  was  reasoned 
that  chances  would  be  better  in  the  sea  highway  than  in 
attempting  to  reach  land.  By  day  the  heat  was  nearly 
intolerable.  Nights  were  treacherous  as  they  induced 
squalls  of  the  vindictively  sudden  nature  peculiar  to  those 
Equatorial  waters.  Day  after  day  wore  by  with  an  un- 
broken horizon.  Finally  the  boats  crawled  up  into  the 
trade  winds.  It  was  decided  to  separate  the  boats  to 
increase  the  chance  of  finding  aid.  For  twenty-five  days 
the  sailors  had  fought  wind,  sun,  and  water  and  now 


30  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 

they  were  in  danger  of  fighting  starvation,  the  ten  days' 
provisions,  which  had  been  distributed  into  one-third 
allowances,  being  nearly  exhausted.  The  remaining 
provisions  were  in  turn  re-divided,  but  were  gone  in  a 
fortnight.  The  men  surviving  sought  nourishment  in 
the  chewing  of  leather  and  moist  clothing.  On  the  point 
of  utter  exhaustion  they  made  a  landfall,  which  proved  to 
be  Hawaii,  and  were  rescued  by  a  crew  from  a  coasting 
station.  They  had  spent  forty-three  days  in  an  open  boat 
and  had  traveled  nearly  three  thousand  miles. 

More  of  the  romance  of  the  sea  came  to  the  division 
when  the  story  of  a  "war  member,"  William  Hurd,  and 
the  schooner  Intrepid  was  told.  Less  than  a  month  after 
Professor  Ferguson's  lecture,  Hurd  cleared  in  New  York 
with  his  little  auxiliary  as  a  trader  to  carry  trinkets,  tin 
jewelry,  Yankee  notions,  canned  soups,  linens  and  what- 
not to  Baranquila  and  to  acquire  cocoanuts  and  rubber 
on  the  Mosquito  Coast  and  islands  nearby.  His  auxiliary 
was  sixty-one  feet  on  the  water  line  and  eighteen  feet 
beam  and  thirty-five  gross  tonnage,  or  twenty-eight  net. 
She  had  a  powerful  gasoline  motor.  After  she  cleared, 
Colombian  insurrectionists  captured  Baranquila  and 
Kurd's  friends  in  the  division  began  to  wonder  what 
would  happen  to  their  former  shipmate  if  an  insurrecto 
officer  ranged  alongside  with  more  of  an  appetite  for 
grindstones,  canned  soups  and  tin  jewelry  than  for  inter- 
national law.  But  Hurd  was  able  to  take  care  of  himself. 
He  prospered  as  a  trader,  made  a  bushel  of  money,  spent 
it  and  finally  returned. 

At  the  annual  banquet  of  1900,  Admiral  Bunce,  U.S.X., 
retired,  was  a  guest  and  in  his  speech  pointed  out 
that  foreign  intelligence  officers  knew  full  well  that  seven- 
tenths  of  the  arms  and  ammunition  made  for  the  govern- 
ment came  from  Connecticut.  In  response  to  a  toast 
another  speaker,  Francis  B  Allen,  said : 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL    GUARD  31 

"It  was  one  of  your  honorary  members,  our  distin- 
guished Admiral  Bunce,  who,  while  in  command  of  the 
North  Atlantic  Squadron  just  prior  to  the  Spanish  War, 
brought  not  only  the  fleet  but  each  individual  ship  to  such 
a  degree  of  excellence  in  squadron  evolutions  and  gun 
drills  that  he  enabled  his  successors  to  acquit  themselves 
so  creditably  that  Sunday  morning  outside  Santiago 
Bay  when  Cervera's  squadron  tried  to  escape  that  the 
result  afforded  us  the  greatest  Fourth  of  July  celebration 
since  Vicksburg  surrendered." 

A  month  later  Ensign  Middle-brook  launched  the 
Veteran  Association  down  well-greased  ways,  and  on 
May  23  the  battalion  had  its  first  field  day,  assembling  at 
Savin  Rock.  It  was  reserved  for  Gunner's  Mate  Chapin 
to  make  known  to  Hartford  a  new  method  of  celebrating 
the  Fourth  of  July.  He  navigated  a  picked  gun  crew  at 
the  close  of  the  midwatch  from  the  armory  to  the  City 
Hall  and  at  sunrise  pumped  out  a  salute  of  twenty-one 
shots  from  the  lean  throat  of  a  Hotchkiss  one-pounder. 
Irate  sleepers  admitted  that  Chapin 's  method  was  con- 
vincing. They  were  justly  incensed  when  he  marched 
the  crew  under  the  Asylum  Street  bridge  and  fired  a  like 
salute,  and  still  more  so  when  he  took  it  to  the  Park 
Terrace  and  discharged  a  fourteen-s-hot  salute.  Chapin 
proposed  to  fire  a  salute  in  Wethersfield,  but  ammunition 
ran  low. 


COURSE    FIVE 


THE  PRAIRIE  AGAIN 

THAT  summer's  cruise  was  on  the  Prairie  and 
led  to  Penobscot  Bay.     The  division  sent  in  a 
whaleboat  crew  to  race  against  one  from  the 
First   Division   on   that   water,   and    its   crew 
defeated  that  from  the  Elm  City  by  a  quarter  of  a  length, 
one  of  the  New  Haven  officers  marveling  at  this  result 
and  asserting  that  it  was  a  mystery  of  the  deep.     It  also 
captured  two  other  boat  races. 

Later  in  the  summer  camping  parties  spent  week-ends 
in  Paradise,  the  narrow  strip  between  Bodkin  Rock  and 
the  river  a  short  distance  below  Middletown.  The  divi- 
sion's steamboat  and  the  pulling  boats  which  had  come  a 
season  or  two  before  were  in  popular  favor.  They  gave 
silent  lessons  to  the  boys  in  boat  engine  work  and  in  the 
stowing  of  dunnage,  thereby  adding  variety  to  the  oars- 
men's drill  of  the  early  spring. 

December  22,  Lieutenant  Parker  died  at  his  home  in 
South  Lancaster,  Mass.,  mourned  by  all  who  knew  him. 
A  patriotic  officer,  a  loyal  friend,  he  had  won  the  affection 
of  the  command. 

One  minute  prior  to  midnight  December  31,  two  gun 
crews  unlimbered  in  the  rear  of  the  City  Hall  and  on  the 
dot  of  midnight,  the  opening  of  the  new  century,  Gunner's 
Mate  Chapin  fired  the  first  shot  in  a  salute  of  twenty-one 
guns,  a  welcome  to  the  newborn  heir  of  time. 

Century  No.  Twenty's  first  gift  to  the  division  was 
an  indoor  baseball  team.  The  sport  was  new  to  the 
armory  and  it  jumped  (or  slid)  into  instant  favor.  The 


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first  game  was  with  a  team  from  Company  A  and  to  the 
astonishment  of  everybody  and  most  of  all  themselves 
the  sailors  won,  by  a  score  of  17  to  12.  They  contended 
with  a  hurricane  of  batting  in  the  second  inning  and 
dragged  anchor,  but  they  weathered  the  storm  and  won 
with  an  inning  to  spare.  One  of  the  division  advocated 
a  diamond  of  this  kind : 

Home  plate  on  the  forecastle  near  the  foremast,  for 
baseline  the  starboard  foremast  shrouds  and  for  first  base 
the  foretop ;  along  main  topmast  stay  to  second  base,  the 
main  topmasthead ;  down  main  topmast  rigging  to  third 
base,  the  main  top ;  then  down  the  mainstay  and  on  to  the 
paint  of  beginning.  None  of  the  other  teams  would  play 
on  that  diamond. 

In  a  sham  battle  held  in  the  armory  in  Governor 
McLean's  honor  the  division  had  a  conspicuous  part  and 
in  the  spring  the  battalion  had  its  field  day  in  the  South 
Meadow.  Governor  McLean  had  appointed  Mr.  Middle- 
brook  to  be  naval  aide  on  his  staff,  with  the  rank  of 
captain,  the  highest  rank  which  any  member  has  obtained 
in  the  Connecticut  naval  militia,  later  naval-aides  having 
the  rank  of  lieutenant-commanders. 


COURSE    SIX 
* 

TO   CAMP    NEWTON 

THE  third  anniversary  of  the  mustering  in  of  the 
battalion  at  Niantic  was  observed  by  an  outing' 
at  Woodmont,  followed  by  a  week-end  cruise 
on  the  Elfrida,  the  converted  yacht  once  owned 
by  W.  Seward  Webb  and  purchased  by  the  government 
at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  with  Spain.    At  a  banquet 
in  the  Pembroke  Hotel  at  Woodmont,  General  Edward  E. 
Bradley,  adjutant-general  when  the  First  Division  organ- 
ized, and  Senator  Joseph  R.  Hawley  were  speakers. 

Master-at-Arms  Murphy  trained  a  volunteer  racing 
cutter  crew  at  intervals  in  the  course  of  the  summer, 
bitterly  lamenting  that  he  never  had  the  same  men  two 
evenings  running.  Still  he  had  men  who  were  fairly 
proficient  when  the  battalion  had  its  annual  tour  of  duty, 
at  Camp  'Newton  on  Fisher's  Island.  Tent  life  was 
varied  by  considerable  work  in  pulling  boats.  It  was 
expected  that  a  cutter  race  would  be  rowed  between  the 
Hartford  racing  crew  and  a  crew  picked  from  the  New 
Haven  and  Bridgeport  Division,  but  the  latter  did  not 
materialize.  That  spectators  might  not  be  disappointed, 
two  crews  were  selected  from  the  Hartford  oarsmen, 
Lieutenant  Lyman  Root  acting  as  coxswain  for  one  and 
Assistant  Surgeon  Carroll  C.  Beach  for  the  other. 
Mr.  Root's  crew  was  inspired  by  the  presence  of  Dick, 
the  division's  mascot,  a  corpulent  bulldog  with  a  blue 
flat  cap  cocked  rakishly  over  one  ear.  With  one  hand  on 
the  tiller  and  the  other  on  the  dog's  collar,  Mr.  Root 
incited  his  crew  and  won  by  a  'half-length  in  a  course  of 
Jhalf  a  mile. 


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For  most  of  the  six  days  rain  came  down  in  buckets. 
The  camp  work  was  a  practical  lesson  to  the  men  of  the 
division.  That  they  returned  healthy,  well  disciplined, 
and  contented,  as  well  as  much  more  familiar  with  duty 
either  afloat  or  ashore,  demonstrated  the  learning  capacity 
of  the  men  and  the  value  of  the  camp. 

On  the  return  the  Elfrida  cast  off,  outside  Saybrook 
Light,  a  tow  consisting  of  the  steam  whaleboat  and  the 
division's  cutter,  its  barge  and  its  pulling  whaleboat. 
The  "whaler"  with  the  pulling  boat  in  tow  started  up  the 
river,  but  a  squall  descended  and  gave  work  to  all  hands. 
The  crews  landed  in  Essex  in  torrents,  and  after  making 
the  boats  snug  for  the  night,  turned  in  at  a  sail  loft  near 
the  landing. 

In  the  autumn  the  division  sustained  another  severe 
affliction  in  the  death  of  its  first  honorary  member,  a  firm 
friend  in  fair  weather  and  foul,  Admiral  Francis  M. 
Bunce,  an  officer  whom  it  had  been  a  rare  privilege  to 
honor.  A  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  a  seasoned  sailor, 
a  loyal  Hartford  man  who  took  pride  in  his  townspeople, 
the  Admiral  had  richly  merited  the  division's  high  esteem. 
His  strong,  yet  kindly  face  the  men  missed  and  mourned. 

In  the  autumn  an  order  came  for  a  parade  in  New 
Haven,  and  when  the  personal  escort  for  President 
Roosevelt  was  selected,  it  was  found  to  be  the  Naval 
Battalion ;  and  when  the  parade  started  it  was  found  that 
the  senior  division,  the  Second,  was  next  to  the 
President's  carriage. 

Wall-scaling  had  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  drill  of  the 
winter,  and  in  the  spring  small  boat  work  and  volunteer 
work  on  the  Elfrida,  the  battalion's  practice  vessel,  were 
attractions  for  those  most  interested  in  the  command. 
The  Elfrida  played  her  part  well  in  the  duty  of  the 
spring  field  day  of  1902,  when  the  battalion  rendezvoused 
in  Bridgeport. 

In  June  of  that  year  a  proposition  to  establish  a 
summer  camp  took  shape  and  at  a  meeting  a  subscription 


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paper  was  opened  and  $200  was  pledged  in  about  fifteen 
minutes.  A  site  was  selected  on  the  east  bank  of  the 
river  in  South  Glastonbury  and  nearly  opposite  Two 
Piers.  Volunteers  cleared  the  land  of  brush,  assisted  in 
driving  a  well,  hauled  lumber  and  materials  up  the  steep 
ascent  of  115  feet,  aided  the  carpenters,  and  helped  to 
furnish  and  arrange  camp.  They  sought  and  obtained 
practical  experience  in  cooking  and  camp  life.  It  was 
decided  to  name  the  camp  after  the  first  commander  of 
the  division ;  and  to  this  day  the  building  is  known  as 
Camp  Parker.  The  spot  was  formally  dedicated  July  4th 
with  speeches  and  an  open-air  dinner,  at  which  the  build- 
ing committee  in  due  and  ancient  form  turned  the  insti- 
tution over  to  the  division.  The  house  was  equipped  with 
hammocks  and  many  a  rooky  has  there  learned  how  to 
pass  a  sailor's  night.  Many  a  pleasant  Sunday  afternoon 
in  midsummer  has  lured  men  of  the  division  to  the  cool 
piazza  with  its  noble  view  for  many  miles  in  three  direc- 
tions, south,  west  and  north. 


COURSE    SEVEN 


THE  PANTHER 

IN  some  respects  the  yearly  cruise  which  started 
several  weeks  later  was  among  the  most  memorable 
adventures  of  the  division ;  and  when  some  of  the 

old  hands  are  spinning  yarns  about  what  they  did 
when  they  were  young,  they  like  to  hark  back  to  the 
"sham  war"  and  a  certain  hike  across  Montauk  Point. 
The  most  extensive  land  and  sea  maneuvers  in  many 
years  were  arranged  in  Washington  for  a  force  of  several 
thousand  of  the  army  and  for  practically  all  of  the  fine 
North  Atlantic  squadron  of  that  year,  of  which  Admiral 
Higginson,  the  captain  of  the  Massachusetts  in  the  Span- 
ish war,  was  in  command. 

It  was  on  the  auxiliary  cruiser  Panther  that  the 
battalion  served.  The  division  boarded  the  ship  in  New 
London  harbor.  In  the  course  of  the  service  the  Panther 
steamed  as  far  east  as  Menemsha  Bight  and  as  far  west 
as  New  London,  the  object  of  the  maneuvers  being  to 
test  in  a  practical  way  the  defenses  of  the  eastern  entrance 
of  Long  Island  Sound.  At  sundown  of  a  Saturday  the 
most  powerful  fleet  to  that  time  assembled  in  those 
waters  was  riding  to  anchor  in  the  bight,  awaiting  the 
passage  of  the  hours  before  midnight  'ere  beginning 
maneuvers  against  the  string  of  forts  and  signal  stations 
scattered  all  the  way  from  Woods  Hole  around  to  Mon- 
tauk. As  night  shut  down,  the  signal  lamps  began  their 
Ardois  work.  At  midnight  hoarse  orders  came  from  the 
Panther's  bridge  and  the  rattle  of  the  steam  winch  and 
the  heavy  clank  of  the  cable  in  the  hawse  pipe  announced 
that  the  ship  was  getting  under  way. 


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Sunday  found  the  ship  off  Block  Island  and  Monday 
evening  found  her  heading  north.  Just  as  the  watch  off 
duty  was  beginning  to  snore  peacefully,  the  bugle  sounded 
the  call  for  general  quarters.  In  a  moment  the  gun  deck 
lights  were  switched  on  and  ladders  and  hatches  were 
choked  with  men  piling  to  their  stations.  Masters-at-arms 
were  unceremoniously  rousting  out  rookies  from  their 
hammocks.  In  barely  more  time  that  it  has  taken  to 
write  this  paragraph  the  guns  were  cast  loose,  ammunition 
was  provided  and  the  big  naval  bulldog  was  in  fighting 
trim. 

One  afternoon  the  battalion  had  boat  drill.  Cutters  were 
lowered  and  with  boat  guns  working  and  the  landing  party 
armed  with  rifles  there  was  a  pretty  bit  of  excitement. 
A  day  later  the  heavy  guns  belched  at  a  signal  station 
ashore,  which  crumbled  to  theoretic  dust.  Then  the  naval 
militiamen  were  mustered  at  division  quarters  and  a  day's 
ration  was  issued  to  each  man,  a  two-pound  tin  of  canned 
beef  to  each  pair  of  men  and  five  or  ten  hard  tack  (or 
ship  biscuit)  to  each  man  and  a  canteen  full  of  water 
or  coffee,  as  the  man  elected.  The  call  came  for  arm  and 
away  boats.  With  a  Colt  automatic  in  the  bow  of  each 
cutter  the  party  landed,  going  into  extended  order,  while 
a  detail  took  possession  of  the  telegraph  and  the  telephone 
station. 

The  long  line  of  blue  swarmed  over  a  strip  of  sand 
and  a  bit  of  swale  to  a  knoll.  Then  began  two  hours' 
hard  work.  Through  wire  grass  and  sand  grass,  through 
bushes  and  brush,  across  swamp  and  swale,  by  farm- 
houses and  barns,  alongside  lily  ponds,  the  bending  blue 
line  advanced,  officers  pointing  the  way  with  swords  and 
squad  leaders  attempting  to  keep  the  files  at  eight  pace 
intervals. 

Following  an  advance  of  four  miles  in  such  manner 
the  "enemy"  was  located  behind  the  crest  of  a  steep  and 
high  hill.  The  order  for  a  charge  was  given  and  with  a 


40  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL   MILITIA 

yell  the  men  sprinted  forward  under  a  heavy  shower  of 
fireworks.  Ensign  Northam  was  the  first  up  San  Juan 
Hill  and  it  was  reported  that  the  historian  was  the  last 
to  reach  the  summit. 

At  this  juncture  the  heavens  opened  and  rain  came 
down  in  buckets.  After  a  quarter  of  an  hour  in  the 
downpour  the  battalion  started  on  the  return  of  four 
miles.  The  hike  was  at  route  step.  At  the  beach  the 
oarsmen  had  a  stiff  pull  against  wind  and  tide  in  boats 
loaded  to  the  gunwales.  But  the  young  salts  were  in 
fine  spirits  and  when  the  order  came  to  "shift  to  anything 
dry"  it  was  received  as  a  joke. 

The  chief  boatswain's  mate  of  the  Panther  was  C.  K. 
Claussen,  the  Claussen  who  accompanied  Hobson  on  the 
Merrimac  and  was  confined  in  the  Spanish  prison  near 
Santiago. 

At  the  end  of  the  week,  when  the  Panther  left  the 
squadron,  her  course  lay  between  the  Olympia,  Dewey's 
flagship  in  the  Battle  of  Manila  Bay,  and  the  Brooklyn, 
Schley's  in  the  capture  of  Cervera.  To  each  was  given  a 
salute  with  the  bugle  and  the  lining  of  the  rail.  The 
Brooklyn's  band  rendered  a  patriotic  air. 

In  the  following  fall  the  division  took  up  target 
practice  in  real  earnest  and  at  a  special  shoot  in  the  South 
Meadow  Chief  Gunner's  Mate  Herbert  E.  Wiley  won 
the  first  place.  Barely  was  this  function  over  when  it 
was  decided  to  produce  a  comic  opera  and  "The  Mikado" 
was  selected.  This  was  presented  in  Parsons',  so  well 
that  critics  agreed  that  the  division  could  sing  as  correctly 
as  it  could  sail. 

In  the  winter  the  division  tried  its  fortune  again  at 
indoor  baseball,  with  varying  results.  On  one  occasion 
it  played  an  exciting  game  with  Company  A,  won  the 
game,  lost  it  and  won  it  again,  just  clearing  a  lee  shore 
by  a  score  of  19  to  18.  On  another  it  defeated  the  cham- 
pions of  the  armory  in  an  eleven-inning  contest. 


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11 


The  second  annual  indoor  meet  demonstrated  that  the 
series  had  arrived  to  stay,  a  fact  which  each  February 
proves  again. 

To  extend  its  activities  the  division  sent  a  picked  gun 


BOAT  CREW  AT  CHARLES  ISLAND 


crew  on  an  inland  cruise  to  New  Britain  to  give  an  exhi- 
bition drill. 

The  field  day  was  spent  at  Charles  Island.  To  still 
further  extend  its  activities  the  division  crossed  afoot 
from  the  island  at  low  tide  to  the  mainland. 


COURSE    EIGHT 


AT   NIANTIC 

APHIBIOUS  is  the  word  to  apply  to  the  divi- 
sion's tour  of  duty  that  summer.     The  steam 
whaleboat,     by    this    time    christened    "Tillie 
Hadley,"  by  her  fireman,  Gunner's  Mate  Arnold, 
started  down  the  river  August  21,  1903,  with  the  three 
pulling  boats  in  tow,  carrying  nearly  a  quarter  of  the 
division.     The  following  day  the  remainder  boarded  the 
Elfrida  in  New  Haven  harbor,  and  she  with  the  First 
Division's  small  boats  in  tow  steamed  to  Crescent  Bay. 
A  detail  from  each  division  spent  eight  days  afloat  and 
the  rest  divided  their  time  between  Camp  Reynolds  at 
the  state  military  rendezvous  at  Niantic  and  boat  drills 
in  Crescent  Bay.    The  boat  work  was  popular,  so  much 
so  that  in  a  few  days  most  of  the  oarsmen  were  approach- 
ing man-o'-war  form. 

At  the  end  of  the  duty  a  storm  came  along  which 
gave  work  to  militia,  the  seafaring  population  and  land- 
lubbers. In  the  New  York  Herald  of  the  next  day  it 
was  printed:  "Old  seafaring  men  down  that  way  say 
that  they  never  saw  the  Sound  rougher  than  it  was  that 
night."  A  sailboat  was  washed  ashore  at  White  Beach, 
two  small  sailing  vessels  dragged  anchor  near  Niantic, 
a  sloop  was  wrecked  to  the  southwest  of  the  Crescent 
Beach  landing  and  a  large  three-masted  schooner  dragged 
anchor. 

The  Elfrida  steamed  out  of  the  bay  as  the  storm  was 
breaking,  on  her  way  to  Sandy  Hook  and  the  yacht  races 
with  Governor  Chamberlain  on  board.  The  sou'wester 


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rose  into  a  gale.  Seas  broke  high  over  the  weather  rail 
to  fly  across  the  engine  room  skylight.  The  officers  on 
the  bridge  and  the  quartermaster  on  watch  were  soon 
soaked  to  the  skin  in  spite  of  oilskins  and  pea  coats. 
It  was  a  fierce  night  and  the  brave  little  ship  had  a  nervy 
tussle  with  the  gale.  At  3  o'clock  in  the  morning  the 
Elfrida  put  into  Huntington  Bay  and  dropped  anchor, 
finding  that  five  large  steamers  were  there  riding  out 
the  night,  among  them  the  Tremont  of  the  Joy  Line, 
and  the  Shinnecock.  Stormbound  sailing  craft  were  also 
in  the  bay. 

Soon  after  the  hook  went  down  it  was  found  to  be 
dragging,  then  the  ship  was  taken  farther  inshore  and 
both  starboard  and  port  anchors  were  let  drop,  with  a 
good  length  of  cable. 

Later  a  distress  sign  was  sighted  on  a  yacht  out  in 
the  open  water.  A  volunteer  boat  crew  pulled  out  and 
found  the  vessel  to  be  the  schooner  Rosina,  from  New 
Haven,  owned  by  an  amateur  who  had  a  sailing  master, 
three  women  and  a  cook  on  board.  The  owner  seasick, 
the  sailing  master  called  the  cook  for  a  moment  to  the 
wheel,  while  he  stepped  down  into  the  cabin  for  a  chart. 
The  cook  lost  his  head  and,  while  in  the  wind,  the 
schooner's  main-topmast  snapped  and  her  fore-topsail 
carried  away.  The  rescuing  boat  crew  found  the  women 
hysterical  and  with  life  preservers  adjusted.  The  men 
from  the  Elfrida  cleared  away  the  wreckage. 

Early  in  the  fall  the  division  entertained  members  of 
H  Company,  Naval  Brigade,  M.  V.  M.,  of  Springfield,  at 
Camp  Parker  with  an  old-time  shore  clambake.  The  camp 
had  become  increasingly  popular  and  for  a  number  of 
years  nearly  every  Saturday  or  Sunday  afternoon  in 
midsummer  attracted  division  men  to  the  place,  and  in 
"whites"  the  boys  kept  busy  making  things  snug  in  the 
galley  or  policing  the  grounds  or  taking  a  spin  in  a 
pulling  boat  below. 


44  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL   MILITIA 

November  18  brought  an  extraordinary  spectacle — a 
book  bee.  At  one  bell  in  the  first  watch,  Librarian  Palmer 
and  Jack-o'-the-Shelf  McDonald  broke  out  their  acces- 
sioning system  and  the  smoking  lamp  was  lighted.  The 
books  given  made  a  startling  list.  Tolstoy's  "Resurrec- 
tion" was  found  sandwiched  between  "Alice  in  Wonder- 
land" and  a  volume  of  Lighthouse  Reports.  General 
Miles,  Kipling,  Morgan  Robertson  and  Roosevelt  were 
popular  authors.  This  is  history,  not  romance.  An 
entertainment  followed  the  book  bee.  Clog  dancing  on 
the  foc's'le  head,  nautical  songs,  selections  on  cordage 
and  dead  eyes  by  a  banjo  quintet  and  a  sword  dance  by 
Coxswain  Watson  made  up  the  backbone  of  the  evening. 
It  was  seven  bells  when  the  rejoicing  ceased  and  the 
merrymakers  heaved  out  of  the  armory,  all  on  soundings 
and  under  easy  canvas,  except  the  supposed  contributor 
of  "Resurrection,"  who  scudded  away  under  a  double- 
reefed  fore-topsail. 

The  indoor  meet  of  the  next  February  sustained  the 
division's  reputation.  By  this  time  the  annual  mid-winter 
tourney  had  become  known  all  over  Connecticut.  The 
referees  in  the  series  have  included  such  gentlemen  as 
President  Luther  of  Trinity  College  and  Former  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor  Lake. 

A  month  later  the  division  was  entertained  by 
H  Company  of  Springfield  in  the  Highland  Hotel  in  that 
city,  where  the  company  was  observing  its  eleventh 
anniversary. 

In  June  (June  19,  1904)  the  Elfrida  came  over  Saybrook 
Bar  with  Lieutenant  Lyman  Root  in  command.  She  was 
navigated  up  the  river  by  members  of  the  division  and 
came  to  anchor  opposite  the  foot  of  Ferry  Street.  Three 
days  later,  a  brilliant  reception  was  given  on  board  her 
to  Governor  Chamberlain.  She  was  dressed  fore  and  aft 
and  from  water's  edge  to  water's  edge.  In  the  illumination 
248  Japanese  lanterns  were  included.  Many  military 
officers  were  present  in  full  dress  uniform. 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL    GUARD  45 

The  following  morning  the  division  paraded  to  the 
foot  of  Ferry  Street,  embarking  and  escorting  the  gov- 
ernor and  Former  Governor  Morgan  G.  Bulkeley,  an 
honorary  member  of  the  division,  to  East  Haddam,  there 
to  attend  the  dedication  of  a  monument  to  Major-General 
Joseph  Spencer  of  Revolutionary  War  fame. 

Three  days  later  a  hard-working  and  loyal  graduate 
of  the  division,  Ensign  William  G.  Hinckley,  assistant 
engineer,  received  his  commission  as  lieutenant  and  chief 
engineer.  Efficient,  loyal  and  popular,  Mr.  Hinckley 
received  numerous  congratulations  of  his  well-earned 
promotion. 

The  range  of  the  division's  energy  is  proved  when  it 
is  chronicled  that  July  27,  the  clubhouse  committee 
carried  out  a  moonlight  sail  down  the  river.  It  was 
considerately  promulgated  in  the  committee's  circular : 
"State  exact  number  of  ladies  you  intend  bringing. 
Chaperons  will  be  in  attendance." 


COURSE    NINE 


THE   HARTFORD 

THE  yearly  cruise  of  1904  was  on  Farragut  lang- 
syne  flagship,  the  Hartford,   relic  of  the  battle 
of  Mobile  Bay.      It  was  as  interesting  as  any 
which    the    division    has    ever    taken,    barring, 
perhaps,  that  on  the  Panther.     When  station  billets  were 


FURLING    SAIL    ON    THE    U.   S.   S.   HARTFORD 

issued  even  the  old  hands  volleyed  questions  at  their 
running  mates  of  the  regular  crew.  Here  is  the  start  of 
a  typical  station  billet : 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL    GUARD  47 

Form    No.    10. — Bur.    Navigation. 

Watch  No.  126  U.  S.  S.  Hartford. 

Name,  Rate,  Cox. 

Div.   2d.  Gun,  No.  8,  5-inch. 

Armed    boat,    3d    cutter.  Running    boat,    3d    cutter. 
Abandon  ship,  3d   cutter. 

Fire  quarters,  close  ports,  No.  8  5-inch  gun. 

That  was  easy  enough,  even  for  a  rooky.  But  what 
do  you  know  about  this? 

EVOLUTION. 
Loosing  sail. 
Furling  sail. 

Up  and  down  topgallant  and  royal  yards. 
Up  and  down  topgallant  masts. 
Making  sail  and  getting  underway. 
Tacking  and  wearing. 
Reef  topsails. 
Shorten  sail  and  come  to  anchor. 

STATIONS  AND  DUTIES. 
Loose  topgallant  sail. 
Furl  topgallant  sail. 
Topmast  crosstrees  to  rig  upper  topgallant  yardarm, 

etc. 
Topmast  crosstrees,   reeve   and   unreeve  mast   rope, 

fid  and  unfid,  etc. 

Loose  topgallant  sail,  then  on  deck  to  halliards. 
Overhaul    foresheet    and   shorten    in,   man   maintop 

bowlines,  main  and  fore  tacks. 
Man  topsail  bunt  lines,  then  halliards. 
Let  go  topgallant  halliards,  man  topsail  clew  lines, 

veer  and  stopper  cables. 

It  was  a  novelty  to  nearly  all  of  the  division,  bringing 
back  the  old  days  of  heave  and  haul.  The  regulars  were 
husky  men  with  legs  like  barrels  and  arms  like  black- 
smiths', nearly  every  one  raw  material  for  a  football  player 
or  anchor  of  a  tug-of-war  team.  Bosn's  mates  were 
weather-beaten  salts  with  faces  like  teakwood,  seamed 
by  the  suns  and  snows  of  the  seven  seas,  tanned  tar-me- 


48  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 

quicks  with  chests  like  hair  mattresses.  One  barnacle  in 
the  port  watch  had  a  voice  as  rasping  as  a  nutmeg  grater. 
You  might  have  imagined  that  he  was  born  in  Lat.  2, 
North,  Long.  2,  West,  and  that  he  learned  to  creep  on 
the  lee  side  of  the  focYle.  When  he  shrilled  out  a  pipe 
with  a  chaser  like  the  growl  of  distant  thunder  a  nippous 
rooky  from  the  Tenth  Ward  asked  in  blank  amazement : 

"What  in  heaven  did  that  fellow  say?" 

"One  man  from  each  part  of  the  ship  coal  the  first 
steamer,"  was  the  reply. 

Some  of  the  best  boat  work  which  the  division  has  ever 
done  was  performed  on  this  cruise.  This  is  true  not  only 
in  the  line  of  oarsmanship,  but  also  in  the  securing  of 
boats  for  sea  and  for  port. 

The  duty  took  the  division  up  Sound  to  Huntington 
Bay,  then  east  to  Gardiner's  Bay,  thence  over  to  New 
London  and  finally  back  to  New  Haven  harbor.  The  men 
had  a  welcome  convenience  in  the  line  of  large  lockers. 
They  took  much  interest  in  the  apprentices,  frolicsome 
little  fellows  then  from  the  training  station  who  had 
school  each  morning  at  a  mess  table  on  the  starboard  side 
of  the  igiun  deck  near  a  frowning  five-inch  gun  with  its 
glittering  brass  and  its  oiled  steel. 

The  boys  were  poring  over  their  books  and  papers 
in  very  much  the  same  way  that  lads  in  the  seventh  and 
eighth  grades  in  the  Second  North  or  the  West  Middle 
schools  are  poring  (perhaps  more  so),  over  arithmetic. 
In  the  instruction  of  the  class  the  chaplain  was  using  some 
of  the  books  which  citizens  of  Hartford  gave  to  the 
ship's  library  in  1899  at  the  suggestion  of  Admiral  Bunce. 

Most  important  among  the  events  of  the  early  part 
of  the  ensuing  drill  season  was  the  election  of  Lieutenant 
Lyman  Root  to  be  navigator  of  the  battalion  to  succeed 
Lieutenant  Robert  E.  L.  Hutchinson,  promoted  to 
be  lieutenant-commander  and  in  turn  succeeding 
Lieutenant-Commander  Frank  S.  Cornwell,  promoted  to 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL    GUARD  49 

be  commander  of  the  battalion,  rice  Commander  Averill, 
retired.  In  his  capacity  as  chief  of  the  division,  Mr.  Root 
had  shown  exceptional  versatility,  having  been  successful 
in  the  social  and  athletic  lines,  as  well  as  in  drill  and  dis- 
cipline. At  the  next  drill  evening-  he  took  formal  fare- 
well of  the  division  which  he  had  so  long  and  so  ably 
and  so  considerately  commanded,  giving  generously  of 
his  best  energy  and  most  faithful  loyalty.  He  had  taken 
the  helm  when  the  command  was  little  better  than  a 
wreck,  had  nursed  it  back  to  health  and  prosperity  and 
made  it  the  finest  military  company  in  all  Hartford.  In 
fair  weather  and  foul  weather,  in  joy  and  sorrow,  on 


LIKUTKNANT    HOWARD    J.   BLOOMER 

soundings  and  off  soundings,  his  steadying  hand  had 
been  at  the  wheel  and  had  time  and  again  brought  the 
division  safe  into  port.  Strong  and  clear  purpose,  affection 
for  the  command  and  for  salt  water, — these  were  our 
chief's  dominant  traits.  The  ability  to  read  character 
was  another  quality.  But  of  these  three  characteristics 
his  affection  for  the  division  stood  ever  foremost. 

Captain    Howard   J.    Bloomer   came   over    from  the 
infantry  to  act  as  next  lieutenant  of  the  division,  not  the 
least  of  the  prerogatives  being  the  privilege  of  presiding 
7 


50  SECOND   DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 

as  toastmaster  at  the  yearly  banquet.  On  the  menu  card 
was  a  huitrain  re-rigged  from  Coxswain  John  Kendrick 
Bangs  so  as  to  read : 

Oh,  Navy  Plug,  Ottoman,  Alonzo, 

Puritan  Boy,   Especial,   H.   Clay, 
Invincible,  Rosedale,  Alphonso, 

Soby's  Best,  German  Lovers,  El  Rey, 
Elegantes,  Re-ina,   Selectos, 

Oh,  Two-For,  Madura,  Grande, 
Shoe  Pegs,  Oscuro,  Perfectos — 

You  drive  all  my  sorrows  away. 

A  floral  bell  nearly  as  large  as  the  foretop  was  lifted 
and  revealed  an  elegant  silver  loving  cup  presented  to 
Mr.  Root  as  testimony  to  their  high  esteem.  A  little  later 
followed  the  elevation  of  Mr.  Root  to  the  rank  of 
lieutenant-commander  of  the  battalion. 


COURSE  TEN 

* 
THE   COLUMBIA 

SAIL  drill  was  the  feature  of  the  cruise  on  the  Hart- 
ford in  1904  and  in  the  following  year  drill  in 
small  boats  was  the  feature.    On  the  training  ship 
the  boats  usually  hung  outside  the  rail,  but  on  the 
cruiser  the  boats  were  frequently  kept  inside  the  rail. 
With  the  ship's  four  funnels  and  her  multitudinous  sky- 
lights and  deckhouses  her  superstructure  was  unsuitable 
for  "setting  up." 

A  series  of  tug-of-war  pulls  enlivened  the  trip.  The 
New  Haven  division  won  from  Bridgeport  and  Hartford 
from  New  Haven.  Thus  it  was  for  the  Hartford  team  to 
pull  the  ship's  team.  This  contest  came  and  to  the 
astonishment  of  all,  the  Hartford  men  won.  And  so  it 
was  that  when  the  division  returned  half  of  the  lads  were 
hoarse. 

Bugler  L.  Wayne  Adams  was  in  high  feather  during 
the  trip.  He  had  memorized  the  calls  and  sounded  them 
accurately.  By  virtue  of  his  high  office  he  was  excused 
from  previous  service  as  messman ;  for  much  of  the 
cruise  he  was  a  man  of  elegant  leisure.  On  his  return  to 
Wethersfield,  residents  of  Jordan  Lane  and  the  Nail  Keg 
Club  at  Hanmer's  grocery  heard  many  a  fine  yarn,  spun 
in  Wayne's  best  style. 

The  old  rifle  range  in  the  South  Meadow  was  dis- 
continued, owing  to  the  increased  range  and  power  of  the 
rifles  just  introduced  into  the  Connecticut  National 
Guard.  In  consequence  the  division's  fall  target  practice 
was  conducted  over  the  range  in  South  Manchester.  Act- 
ing as  a  marker,  Landsman  Hill  was  hit  by  a  deflected 
bullet,  which  was  found  later  in  his  shoe.  Hill  was  taken 
to  the  Hartford  Hospital. 


52  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL   MILITIA 

Following  the  indoor  meet,  given  successfully,  of 
course,  the  division  began  to  prepare  to  celebrate  its 
tenth  anniversary.  The  banquet  was  held  in  the  Hartford 
Club.  In  the  blue  uniform  the  men  of  the  division 
attending  mustered  for  entry  into  the  dining  room,  to 
the  strains  of  a  march.  A  dismounted  signal  gun  of  old- 
time  size  from  the  Dauntless  rested  at  the  center  of  the 
head  table,  flanked  by  two  silver  cups,  trophies  won  by 
athletic  teams  from  the  division.  Knife  bayonets  of  the 
new  kind  rested  on  the  cups.  Two  stacks  of  rifles  afforded 
resting-place  for  the  division's  colors. 

The  menu  cards  contained  the  following: 

"Such  a  deal  of  stimble,  skamble  stuff  "A  page  where  men 

At  puts  me  from  my  faith.  "  May  read  strange  matters.  " 

HENRY  iv.  MACBETH. 

x      Ibome  port  IRoutine      x 

Call  All  Hands 

AA         AA         AA        A 
Heave  Anchor  to  Short  Stay     Serve  Grog     Stand  by  for  a  Blow 

Up  and  Down 

Port  Marine  Growth  Bleached         Starboard 

Hot  Suds  Served  Forward  on  Turtle  Deck 

Bony  Walks  the  Plank  to  the  Wake 
Dutch  Sea  Apples  Sliced  Irish  Torpedoes 

Cascarets 
"Damn  the  Torpedoes!  Go  Ahead" 

Sea  Cow  off  Madeira 
Spud  Chippies  Burnside  Bullets 

Xgman  TRoot  puncb 

+,*!  Fruit  Scouse 

835  Vesuvius  Ice  "Up  all  -  " 


Pass  to  Leeward 

Roquefort  and  Club 

Black  Jack 


'Divine  in  hookas,  glorious  in  pipe. 

When  tipped  in  amber,  mellow,  rich,  and  ripe 
Like  other  charmers,  wooing  the  caress 


•  by  far 
Thy  naked  beauties  — Give  me  a  cigar!" 

Boatswain's  Mate  BYRON  "The  Island,"  II. 


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Two  hours  were  passed  "Off  Yarnland."  Governor 
Roberts  brought  the  division  men  to  their  feet  when  he 
told  them  that  he  intended  to  order  out  the  battalion 
when  the  presentation  took  place  of  the  silver  service 
voted  by  the  General  Assembly  for  the  new  battleship 
Connecticut.  Senator  Bulkeley  told  the  familiar  and 
always  stirring  story  of  Admiral  Dunce's  splendid  work 
in  taking  a  monitor  around  Cape  Horn. 

In  the  early  spring  Lieutenant  (Junior  Grade)  Robert 
D.  Chapin  succeeded  to  the  command  of  the  division.  In  the 
nine  years  he  had  been  in  the  division  he  had  ascended  the 


LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER    ROBERT    D.    CHAPIN 

ladder,  round  by  round,  as  seaman,  coxswain,  gunner's 
mate,  second  and  first  class,  and  boatswain's  mate,  first 
class.  He  had  served  on  about  every  brand  of  standing 
committee  which  the  organization  had  utilized.  Later  he 
was  appointed  naval  aide  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant- 
commander. 

Again  in  the  early  summer  a  racing  crew  was  essayed, 
with  Boatswain's  Mate  Hogan  in  charge  of  the  training, 


54  SECOND  DIVISION   NAVAL    MILITIA 

the  course  extending  from  an  imaginary  line  off  the  old 
pumping  station  below  Riverside  Park  to  a  point  off  the 
East  Hartford  bank  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  above  the 
railroad  bridge.  Training  was  punctuated  by  swims  and 
dives  from  a  spring  plank  in  the  meadow  bank  a  short  dis- 
tance from  the  bridge. 


COURSE  ELEVEN 

* 

THE   MINNEAPOLIS 

MR.  CHAPIN'S  cruise  was  on  the  Minneapolis, 
sister  ship  to  the  Columbia,  and  it  started  on 
August  25,  1906,  from  New  Haven  harbor. 
The  ship  steamed  down  the  Sound  and  by  Race 
Rock  Light  and  anchored  off  Block  Island  in  the  evening 
with  the  port  anchor,  in  seventeen  fathoms,  sixty  fathoms 
of  chain  out.  A  protected  cruiser,  the  Minneapolis  did 
not  rate  a  band,  but  she  carried  one  till  the  Dolphin  came 
along  and  commandeered  the  musicians.  The  next  day 
the  ship  steamed  out  to  sea  for  a  hundred  miles  and  then 
after  a  diversity  of  courses  came  to  anchor  in  Menemsha 
Bight.  Target  practice,  while  the  Minneapolis  was  steam- 
ing at  a  rate  of  ten  knots,  made  one  afternoon's  work.  In 
it  the  division's  team  struck  hard  times,  but  in  the  signal 
contest  later  the  division  redeemed  itself,  Quartermaster 
Palmer  being  an  easy  first  among  the  signal  force  of  the 
battalion  in  the  Ardois  branch  and  Quartermaster  Ferris 
making  an  especially  fine  showing  with  the  semaphore 
work.  The  division  has  for  several  years  been  strong 
in  the  signal  branch. 

When  Governor  Woodruff  chose  a  naval  aide  it  was 
Mr.  Chapin  who  was  selected  for  that  high  honor,  and 
when  the  next  commanding  officer  of  the  Second  was 
nominated,  Dr.  Beach  moved  up  to  a  lieutenant's  stripes. 
Beginning  in  the  ranks  Dr.  Beach  went  upon  the  staff  as 
assistant  surgeon  and  then  back  to  the  Second  as  ensign. 

For  a  number  of  years  the  division  had  combined  with 
other  commands  in  the  Elm  Street  Armory  to  attend  an 
annual  military  service  in  a  Hartford  church,  but  in  the 


56  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL   MILITIA 

following  December  it  decided  to  attend  a  separate  or 
sailors'  service,  and  the  church  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Main  was 
selected.  It  is  a  question  why  this  was  chosen,  but  a 
legend  has  it  that  the  choice  was  on  account  of  the 
nautical  hint  in  the  pastor's  name  and  that  in  the  denomi- 
nation, the  Baptist.  In  a  sermon  on  intelligent  patriotism 
Dr.  Main  interspersed  a  number  of  sailorlike  yarns  to 


LIKUTENANT    CARROLL    C.    BEACH 


illustrate  several  points.  He  told  the  story  about  Nelson's 
disregard  of  Parker's  signal  at  the  battle  of  Copenhagen ; 
and  that  of  John  Paul  Jones's  answer  in  the  fight  with  the 
Serapis. 

One  of  the  most  loyal  and  faithful  members  the 
division  .ever  included  had  enlisted  a  short  time  before  in 
the  United  States  Navy,  Seaman  John  J.  A.  Connor,  and 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL   GUARD  57 

was  now  on  the  battleship  Connecticut  on  the  always 
memorable  trip  around  the  world,  bombarding  friends 
with  welcome  post  cards. 

The  eleventh  anniversary  banquet  was  enjoyed  in  the 
Hotel  Garde  in  conjunction  with  Admiral  Bunce  Section, 
Xavy  League  of  the  United  States.  Admiral  Caspar  F. 
Goodrich  told  about  his  personal  interest  in  the  Naval 
Militia,  an  adjunct  necessary  to  the  Navy,  as  he  declared, 
and  Corporation  Counsel  Arthur  L.  Shipman  talked  as  an 
attorney  to  the  gathering,  telling  about  the  influence  of 
the  navy  in  Guam  and  Samoa,  where  the  Navy  was  still 
administering  the  government. 


COURSE  TWELVE 


AGAIN  THE  PRAIRIE 

SPACE  has  been  economized  for  the  chronicling  of 
the  next  cruise,  a  trip  on  our  old  friend  the  Prairie 
to  Hampton  Roads.  For  several  seasons  the  naval 
militiamen  had  prospered  with  running  mates 
from  the  regulars,  but  for  a  reason  to  be  made  evident  in 
the  next  sentence  the  pair-off  system  was  not  pursued  this 
time.  The  Prairie  had  a  skeleton  crew  of  145  and  the 
battalion  numbered  about  fifty  above  those  figures.  The 
start  for  the  run  down  the  coast  was  made  by  way  of 
Montauk  Point,  rounding  which  the  Prairie  put  her  helm 
over  for  the  first  long  leg  on  a  course  of  S.  58  degrees  W. 
Early  in  the  evening  the  wind  began  rising  and  old  hands 
watched  the  rookies  for  symptoms  of  internal  disturbance. 
The  journey  down  was  a  welcome  innovation  and  the 
passing  of  Five-Fathom  Bank  Lightship  and  of  Winter 
Quarter  Lightship  were  events.  When  the  Cape  Charles 
Lightship  came  abeam  the  Prairie  went  on  various  courses 
until  she  dropped  anchor  off  the  Chamberlin  Hotel  at  Old 
Point  Comfort.  During  a  part  of  the  run  soundings  were 
made  by  the  Thompson  sounding  machine,  a  method  that 
had  been  studied  in  former  cruises,  but  with  less  interest 
than  on  this.  The  Jamestown  ter-centenary  was  in 
progress  that  summer  and  liberty  to  an  unusual  extent 
was  allowed  to  the  battalion.  One  afternoon  about  fifty 
members  of  the  division  visited  the  Connecticut  building 
at  the  exposition.  Most  of  them  signed  their  names  in 
the  register,  Boatswain's  Mate  Perkins  at  first  directing 
the  writing  class  and,  when  he  tired,  another  petty  officer 
relieving  him.  It  was  with  joy  nearly  equal  to  signing 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL    GUARD  59 

the  pay  roll  that  the  sailors  affixed  their  signatures. 
Manager  Curtis  greeted  the  men  with  a  graceful  courtesy 
rivalled  only  by  Commissioner  Barber's  graceful  urbanity. 
Maps  of  the  exposition  grounds  were  served  out  By 
using  these  and  keeping  the  lead  going  and  working  their 
jaw  tackle,  the  men  made  shift  to  reach  proper  destina- 
tions. 

The  same  afternoon  the  men  gravitated  to  a  military 
carnival  on  the  parade.     An  impression  prevailed  in  the 


LIEUTENANT    (JUNIOR    GRADE)   CHARLES    I.    HOGAN 

division  that  the  division's  tug-of-war  team  could  have 
outpulled  the  team  which  won  in  the  carnival. 

In  years  gone  by  cruise  clubs  had  been  launched,  for 
instance  the  Ham-Bone  Club  at  Fort  Wright  and  the 
Fore-Top  on  the  Hartford.  In  Jamestown  the  Kimona 
Club  was  organized  with  Lieutenant  Hinckley  at  its  head. 


60  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 

It  consisted  of  a  president,  a  vice-president,  a  secretary 
and  a  chancellor  of  the  exchequer,  with  an  understudy  for 
each. 

On  another  afternoon  Commissioner  Barber  made  his 
return  call.  He  witnessed  hammock  and  dunnage  bag 
inspection,  a  "ceremony"  which  our  men  loved  as 
cordially  as  the  devil  loves  holy  water.  He  saw,  also, 
Underwood  typewriters  in  the  paymaster's  office  and 
rejoiced  at  the  use  of  a  Hartford  product. 

In  the  fall  information  came  that  the  Elfrida  was  to 
leave  Connecticut  waters  and  that  the  unarmored  gunboat 
Machias  was  to  take  her  place  as  the  battalion's  practice 
ship.  The  new  ship  was  built  in  Bath,  Me.,  in  1892.  She 
is  of  steel,  has  two  masts.  Her  length  is  204  feet,  her 
beam  32  feet,  her  mean  draft  12  feet,  her  displacement 
1,777  tons,  her  net  tonnage  398,  her  speed  15  1-2  knots 
and  her  horse  power  1,484.  She  has  accommodations  for 
nine  officers  and  about  132  men,  or  about  six  times  as 
many  men  as  the  Elfrida  could  sleep. 

A  Christmas  tree  in  the  division  parlor  brought  joy  to 
all  hands  and  astonishment  to  not  a  few.  It  was  accom- 
panied by  an  innocuous  punch  of  pink  tea  caliber,  followed 
by  Mother  Carey  sandwiches,  saltpeter  and  frozen  rating 
badges  (Neapolitan  ice  cream).  Skylights  were  closed, 
all  glims  were  doused  and  current  was  turned  on  for 
small  electric  lamps  in  a  hemlock,  which  had  been  deco- 
rated with  marlinspikes,  rope  yarns,  and  cornucopias. 
Lieutenant  (Junior  Grade)  James  A.  Evans,  rigged  gaily 
as  Santa  Claus,  served  out  gifts  from  the  break 
of  the  quarter  deck,  assisted  by  Boatswain's  Mates 
Perkins  and  Wyllie  and  Gunner's  Mate  Dickerman.  Mr. 
Hinckley  received  a  miniature  Tillie  Hadley.  Mr.  Hogan 
was  presented  with  a  milk  wagon.  To  Seaman  Barnes 
was  given  a  rake.  Gunner's  Mate  Dickerman,  who  held 
the  championship  of  the  fleet  at  the  deck  game  of 
bowling,  was  helped  to  a  children's  set  of  tenpins.  Quarter- 
master Palmer,  impressario  of  the  Banzai  orchestra,  drew 


CONNECTICUT    NATIONAL    GUARD  61 

an  accordion.  A  village  character  in  the  company  received 
an  allowance  of  jaw  tackle.  A  certain  apprentice  seaman 
was  the  recipient  of  a  "hammock  ladder,"  which  dates 
back  to  the  berth  deck  of  Father  Noah's  Ark. 

March  17,  1908,  an  order  was  issued  from  the 
adjutant-general's  office  marking  the  passing  of  the 
"battalion."  The  official  title  of  the  force  was  changed  to 
Naval  Militia,  Connecticut  National  Guard.  Ratings 
were  officially  prescribed,  those  of  the  first  class  in  the 
division  being  the  following :  Master-at-arms,  boat- 
swain's mate,  gunner's  mate,  machinist's  mate  and  water- 
tender. 

May  21  the  Tillie  Hadley  was  taken  to  Saybrook  and 
exchanged  for  the  First  Division's  steam  cutter.  Later 
the  Tillie  went  to  the  New  York  Navy  Yard.  The 
departure  of  the  old  steam  whaleboat  marked  the  passing 
of  one  of  the  company's  time-honored  institutions.  The 
boat's  successor  is  variously  known  as  the  Hallie  Tidley 
and  the  Merry  Widow. 

The  observance  of  a  division  memorial  day  began  this 
year,  actives  and  veterans  assembling  at  noon,  May  3oth, 
for  a  service,  and  parading  in  the  afternoon  as  part  of 
the  escort  to  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

In  midsummer  a  movement  came  to  reorganize  the 
Veteran  Association.  A  meeting  was  held  July  24th 
and  the  project  advanced  at  a  second  meeting  held  a  week 
later,  when  the  matter  of  participating  in  the  approaching 
dedication  of  Hartford  Bridge  was  discussed.  Former 
Ensign  Fred  E.  Bosworth  was  chief  oiler  of  the 
machinery. 


COURSE  THIRTEEN 


AND  AGAIN  THE  PRAIRIE 

ONCE  more  it  was  on  the  Prairie  that  the  company 
cruised.  It  was  the  fourth  time,  once  to  Bar 
Harbor,  once  to  Penobscot  Bay,  and  once  to 
Hampton  Roads.  So  often  has  the  ship  been 
the  company's  floating  home,  that  long-service  members 
are  more  familiar  with  her  than  with  any  other  ship  in 
the  Navy,  unless  it  be  the  Machias. 

With  the  company  were  men  from  naval  militia  in 
New  York  City  and  Brooklyn,  congenial  companions, 
with  more  of  naval  wardrobe  than  the  Second  Division 
showed.  The  cruise  was  mostly  in  the  Sound.  The 
ship  was  engaged  in  squadron  maneuvers. 

A  flotilla  of  six  torpedo  boats  accompanied  the  squad- 
ron, as  did  also  four  submarines.  Boats  of  this  kind  were 
in  1908  comparatively  new  to  many  in  the  company,  and 
when  Ensign  Hogan  found  an  opportunity  to  make  a 
descent  in  a  submarine  he  embraced  it. 

Back  in  Hartford  the  men  grew  busy  in  preparing  for 
the  Bridge  Dedication,  the  most  important  festivity 
which  the  city  has  ever  conducted,  to  which  the  command 
voted  to  invite  its  old  nautical  guest,  H  Company  of 
Springfield,  down. 

The  dedication  opened  October  6  with  the  firing  of  a 
salute,  by  the  division,  of  course.  In  the  evening  the 
division  paraded  in  a  historical  pageant,  the  men  repre- 
senting men-o'-wars  men  of  the  conflict  of  1812. 

The  battalion  paraded  in  the  giant  military  procession 
of  October  8  as  a  landing  party,  marching  in  white  hats, 
.and  being  among  the  warmest  favorites  in  the  long 


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column.  In  the  afternoon  it  banqueted  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
with  H  Company  men,  for  whom  the  division's  poet 
laureate  had  evolved  a  lyric,  of  which  the  following  is  a 
specimen  verse : 

"When  dinner's  o'er,  we  then  will  go,  then  will  go, 

then  will  go, 

When  dinner's  o'er,  we  then  will  go,  to  East  Hart- 
ford's sandy  shore." 

While  the  company  was  beating  up  Pearl  Street,  an 
automobilist  rammed  the  hospital  apprentice,  an  incident 
which  developed  an  aftermath  in  the  superior  court 
when  with  a  former  Philippine  soldier,  Sergeant  Benedict 
Holden,  as  attorney  and  counselor  and  proctor  in 
admiralty.  Mclntyre  got  a  verdict.  In  his  argument 
Sergeant  Holden  commended  the  division  as  a  patriotic 
command  in  which  the  city  might  well  take  pride. 

ANOTHER  CHRISTMAS  TREE 

Jan'y  4,  1909 — Fourth  Day  Out. 

Lat.  41°  49'  N.  Long.  71°  36'  W.  Bar.,  rising;  Wind, 
E.  S.  E. ;  Atmos.,  Smoky.  All  hands  happy.  Thus  ends 
this  Day. — [Extract  from  the  Division's  Log.] 

At  eight  bells  in  the  second  dog  watch  all  hands  were 
piped  to  the  fo'c'sle.  On  the  forecastle-head  two  screen 
cloths  were  rigged  on  a  sliding  gunther  brace.  Being 
drawn,  these  disclosed  Master-at-Arms  Perkins  in  the 
capacity  of  Neptune  disguised  as  Santa  Claus.  By  the 
heel  of  the  bowsprit  were  the  crosstrees,  which  had  been 
sent  down  and  rigged  with  rope  yarns  and  stores  from 
the  canteen.  Around  the  tree  and  along  both  rails 
packages  were  stowed  facing  inboard,  made  fast  with 
marlin  and  manila.  Pipes,  matches  and  tobacco  were 
served  out  and  the  smoking  lamp  was  lighted.  Then  gifts 
were  passed  out.  Dr.  Beach  received  a  box  of  pills, 
Coxswain  Burns  a  masthead  light,  Master-at-Arms 
Perkins  twin  dolls,  one  young  Benedict  a  toy  baby 


64  SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL   MILITIA 

carriage,  and  Watertender  Lewis  a  slice  bar.  Gifts  wise 
and  otherwise  were  passed  till  the  supply  was  exhausted. 

Skylarking  such  as  this  varied  the  serious  work  of 
the  drill  season.  Although  the  membership  of  the 
command  from  time  to  time  changed  to  some  extent,  the 
majority  of  the  men  had  been  in  the  division  for  years 
and  were  fairly  proficient  in  seamanship  as  well  as  in  the 
ordinary  armory  routine,  and  it  must  not  be  imagined 
that  their  fun  interfered  with  their  nautical  work. 

The  diversity  of  the  fun  is  proved  when  allusion  is 
made  to  a  game  between  the  division's  new  basketball 
team  and  the  Boston  Bloomer  Girls'.  It  was  chronicled 
that  not  a  member  of  the  girls'  team  lost  a  backcomb  or 
displaced  a  "rat,"  although  their  hair  was  coiled  like  the 
flemished-down  end  of  the  Elfrida's  topping  lift. 

The  indoor  meet  was  the  last  held  in  the  old  armory. 
It  was  as  creditable  as  any  in  the  long  and  popular  series 
and  went  as  smoothly  as  desired. 

June  13  was  observed  as  Memorial  Sunday,  the  first 
which  the  division  formally  kept.  The  company  reported 
at  the  armory  to  act  as  escort  to  the  veteran  company  in 
a  parade  to  Spring  Grove  Cemetery. 


COURSE  FOURTEEN 

H 

THE  MACHIAS 

SO  near  is  the  history  drawing  to  the  present  that 
merely  a  bare  outline  is  given  here  of  the  next 
two  years.    The  cruise  of  the  summer  of   1909 
was  on  the  Machias  and  took  the  division  to  quaint 
old  Provincetown.     The  Pilgrims'  Tower  and  the  swim- 
ming linger  in  the  men's  memory. 

Members  of  the  company  enjoyed  three  days'  duty  at 


ENSICN    FRANK    H.    BURNS 


the  Hudson-Fulton  celebration  in  New  York  City.  In 
December  the  company  transferred  to  the  new  state 
armory  and  the  indoor  meet  drew  nearly  three  thousand 
spectators. 


COURSE  FIFTEEN 

* 

THE  LOUISIANA 

THE    cruise    of     1910    was     on   the    battleship 
Louisiana  and  it  carried  the  division  around  the 
Island   of   Bermuda.      April   29   the    division's 
crackerjack  wall-scaling  team  won  the  world's 
championship,  in  the  Twenty-third  Regiment  Armory  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  over  three  competing  teams. 


THE  FOURTH  DIVISION 
NAVAL  MILITIA  CONNECTICUT  NATIONAL  GUARD 

Soon  after  the  forming  of  the  First  Division  an 
engineer  force  was  outlined  and  then  established  and  this 
in  time  became  known  as  an  engineer  division.  The 
organizing  of  the  Second  Division  had  its  influence  on 
the  so-called  engineer  division.  In  time  the  branch  as  a 
separate  organization  seemed  to  lapse,  although  its 
importance  was  increasing. 

In  January,  1908,  an  artificer  division  was  called  for, 
in  an  order  from  the  adjutant-general's  office,  to  have  a 
maximum  enlisted  strength  of  forty,  and  Chief  Engineer 
William  G.  Hinckley  was  placed  in  command.  Commander 
Cornwell  directed  Mr.  Hinckley  and  Assistant  Engineer 
Osborne  A.  Day  to  enlist  and  organize  the  division. 
Warrant  Machinists  Noble,  Rathgeber  and  Larkin  of  the 
staff  were  to  report  to  Mr.  Hinckley  for  duty.  Mr.  Noble 


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67 


was  a  Second  Division  alumnus.  February  4  Mr.  Hmckley 
submitted  the  rates.  Corinth  L.  LaRock  of  Hartford  was 
early  appointed  a  chief  machinist's  mate. 


L1KUTKNANT    WILLIAM    G.    HINCKI.KY 


A.  J.  German  and  Walter  B.  Gordon  of  Hartford  have 
also  served  in  the  artificer  or  engineer  division,  the 
fprmer  becoming  a  warrant  machinist  and  the  latter  a 
chief  machinist's  mate. 


APPENDIX    A 

* 

NECROLOGY 

Lieutenant  FELTON  PARKER 

Charter  member.  First  commander.  Spanish  War  Veteran. 
Annapolis,  1882.  Member  first  Greeley  relief  expedi- 
tion on  the  "Yantic." 

Died  December  22,  1900,  of  fall  from  his  horse.  Buried  in 
South  Lancaster,  Mass. 

Quartermaster  (Second  Class)  THOMAS  S.  CHENEY 
Charter  member. 

Died  February  8,  1898,  of  appendicitis.  Buried  in  South 
Manchester,  Conn. 

Coxswain  PHILIP  D.  BURNHAM 
Charter  member. 

Died  May  19,  1903,  of  tuberculosis.  Buried  in  Spring  Grove 
Cemetery,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Seaman  GEORGE  BISCHOFF 
Athlete. 
Died  1904.    Buried  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York  City. 

Seaman  GEORGE  F.  COLBY 
Spanish  War  Veteran. 
Died  May  17,  1903,  of  pneumonia.    Buried  in  Mt.  Pocono,  Pa. 

Seaman  EDWARD  J.  DORAN 
Spanish  Wrar  Veetran. 

Died  July  3,  1910,  of  appendicitis.  Buried  in  New  Britain, 
Conn. 

Seaman  WILLIAM  A.  GEER 
Spanish  War  Veteran. 
Died  1910.     Buried  in  Middlefield,  Conn. 


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Seaman  JAMES  HAWLEY 

Spanish  War  Veteran.     Assistant  sculptor  of  Corning  foun- 
tain. 
Died  December  n,  1899.     Buried  in  New  York. 

Seaman  WILLIAM  M.  KURD 
Spanish  War  Veteran. 

Died          1909  of  tropical  fever.    Buried  in  Middle  Haddam, 
Conn. 

Seaman  ROM  IE  B.  KUEHNS 

Died  April  7,  1911,  of  pneumonia.    Buried  in  New  York. 

Seaman  ALFRED  H.  SAUNDERS 

Buried  in  Cedar  Hill  Cemetery,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Seaman  LOUIE  P.  STRONG 

Died   May  30,   1911,  of  tuberculosis.     Buried  in  Old  North 
Cemetery,  Hartford,  Conn. 


10 


APPENDIX    B 


LIST  OF  MEMBERS  SINCE  ORGANIZATION 

The  following  is  a  list  of  members  since  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  division,  compiled  from  rosters  and  roll  books 
and  various  records,  and  is  believed  to  be  substantially 
accurate : 

A  Brinley,  G 1897 

Brinley,  J.  G.  W 1897 

Blakeslee,  F.   G 1897 

Buck,  H.    R 1897 

Beers,  R.  C 1897 

Burke,  J.    F 1897 

Barber,  A.  W 1898 

Buck,  J.     S 


Alden,  H.   W 1896 

Allen,  C.    D 1900 

Alexander,  L.    P 1900 

Appley,   1900 

Abbe,  R.  L 1901 

Adams,  L.  W 1902 

Arnold,  F.  W 1903 

Ailing,  M.  D 1904 

Amos,  W.    H 1905 

Ashwell,  H.    B 1906 

Andrews,  D.  H 1907 

Austin,  H.    E 1911 

B 

Bosworth,   F.    E 1896 

Burnett   A.    E 1896 

Bissell,    H.    G 1896 

Burnham,  P.  D 1896 

Bailey,    C.    L 1896 

Baxter,  G.  S 1896 

Beal,  G.  W.... 1896 

Bevins,  V.    L 1896 

Bigelow,    H.    W 1896 

Berry,  H 1898 

Baldwin,  H.  S 1898 

Beamish,  J.    F 1898 

Brewer,  A.  L 1897 

Brewer,  A.    R 1897 

Brewer,  E.  J 1897 

Bletcher,  F.    O 1897 


1899 

Burnett,  H.    E 1899 

Brooks,  H.   D 1899 

Bidwell,  D.    D 1899 

Bonner,  J.    A 1900 

Brooks,  C.    M 1900 

Burke,  C.    E 1900 

Bannon,  J.    E 1900 

Barlow,  F.    J 1900 

Bland,    A.    L 1900 

Bush,  J.    S 1900 

Beach,  Carroll    C 1901 

Barnes,  C.  S.,  Jr 1902 

Bischoff,  G 1903 

Blair,  G.   E 1902 

Barnes,  H.  E 1902 

Bassett,  E.   E 1902 

Beckley,  H.    C 1904 

Bryant,  H.   C 1904 

Beach,  O.  L 1905 

Bourn,  K.    C 1905 

Bloomer,  H.  J 1905 

Burns,  F.  H 1905 


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71 


Burns,  W.  F.,  Jr 1906 

Burr,   H.   R 1906 

Brown,  H.   E 1907 

Banning,  B.  J 1908 

Barnes,  E.  L 1910 

Brennan,  A.  J 1910 

Burke,  T.  F 1910 

C 

Cochran,  L.   B 1896 

Crowell,  E.  H 1896 

Cheney,  T.  S 1896 

Caswell,  L.  S 1896 

Chapman,  J.  W 1896 

Case,  A.  L 1896 

Cuntz,  H.   F 1896 

Chapin,  R.  D 1897 

Caswell,  C.    H 1897 

Case,  H.    B 1898 

Cutting,  A.  S 1898 

Coggeshall,  M.  H 1898 

Colby,  G.  F 1898 

Case,  H.  A 1899 

Chaffee,  D.   G 1899 

Clinch,  E.    E 1899 

Cadman,  G.    B 1900 

Carney,  J.    B 1900 

Coe,  C.  S 1900 

Crowley,  A.    J 1900 

Camp,  H.    P 1900 

Cotter,  W.  J 1900 

Currier,  H.    D 1900 

Cunningham,  J.  W.  M....I9OI 

Cooney,  F.    J 1901 

Connors,  J.   J.    A 1902 

Carroll,  L.   J 1902 

Caverly,  H.   T 1902 

Cooley,  J.   W 1902 

Cadman,  R.    M 1904 

Calder,  W.  P 1904 

Chappell,   F.   N 1904 

Casey,  E.  J 1904 

Cotter,  W.   B 1905 

Carter,  J.    S 1906 

Case,  R.   W 1906 


Comstock,  J.    C 1906 

Case,  H.   E 1907 

Case,   R.   U 1907 

Coburn,  F.   A 1908 

Craig,  J 1908 

Covel,  R.  F 1910 

D 

Duff,  R.    R 1896 

Doran,  E.  J 1896 

Dimock,  S.   K 1897 

Drury,   H.   W 1898 

Dimock,   1 1898 

Dix,  L.   R 1899 

De  Lucco,  J 1900 

Dickenson,   L.    R 1900 

Driver,  J.   F 1900 

Devine,  W.  W 1901 

Doebler,  T.  J 1901 

Downes,  W.   G 1901 

Dermont,  W 1902 

Dungan,  L.  E 1902 

Dickerman,  C.    W 1902 

Dalton,  H.  A 1903 

Day,    H.    A 1903 

Diamond,  J.  E 1903 

Diehl,  G 1904 

Duffy,  F.   L 1904 

Dunn,  L.  G 1904 

Devine,  L.   H 1905 

Duane,  \V.    J 1906 

Duffin,  J.    B 1908 

Devine,  A.  H 1910 

Dagle,  H.,  Jr 1911 

E 

Evans,  H.    M 1901 

Entress,  W.    W 1904 

Evans,  J.    A 1904 

Eichelman,    W 1907 

Elsdon,    P 1909 

F 

Field,  E.    B 1896 

Field,  F.   E 1896 

Filley,  W.   J 1896 


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SECOND  DIVISION    NAVAL    MILITIA 


Franke     P  .  .    . 

1898 

Freeman,  S.  G  

....  1898 

Gormeley,  W    E 

1911 

Forest,  G.    C  

Gustafson,  E 

IOII 

Foster,  G  

1898 

Ferguson,  H     D 

1899 

H 

Fnlpv     T     YV 

Harlow,  M.   P  

1896 

Flanigan    G    W 

Hascall,    S.    H  

1896 

Ferris    M     A 

....  1902 

Havens,  S.  H  

1896 

Flanigan    W     H 

I9O3 

Hawley,  J.    J  

1898 

Flynn,  R    J 

1904 

Heymann,  H.    B  , 

1896 

Hinckley,  W.    G  

1898 

Flynn,  H    T 

....  1905 

IQCK 

Holmes,  R.  J  

1896 

Flynn,  W    J 

1906 

Holcombe,  G.    A  , 

1898 

Hunt,  B.  A  

1898 

Fournier,  O.  J  

....  1907 
....  1907 

Huntley,  S.    A  

1898 

Fagan    F    C 

1909 

Hurd,  W.  N  

1898 

Flynn    G    T 

IOII 

Huntington,  C.  A  

1898 

G 

Hale,  C.    F  
Hart    C    W 

1899 
1899 

Gaines,  D.   A  

....  1896 

Heimer,  E.  Paul  

1899 

Gilbert   E   R 

1896 

Hogan,  C.  L  

.    .  .  1899 

Goodrich,  R.    M  

....  1896 

Gabrielle    B    L 

1807 

Hawkins,  W.  E  

1900 

Gallup,  C.    M  
Geer,  W.  A  
Grundshaw,  E.    J  
Goodridge,  T.  W  
Gordon,  F.  G  
Gillette,   F.  W  

....1898 

....1898 
.  ...  1896 
....1897 
....1897 
.  ...  1898 

Harding,  A.   W  
Higbie,  W.   W  
Hollister,  R  
Hedlund,  E.  V  
Hynes,  D.  N  
Hill,   G  
House,  WE... 

1900 
1900 
....  1902 
....  1903 
1903 
1904 
1904 

Goulet,  W  

.  .  .  .  1898 

Gragan,   H.  T  
Gilmore,  A.    B  
Gillmore,  G.     P  
Goltra,  W.  J  

1902 
.  .  .  .  1902 

.  .  .  .  1902 

.  .  .  .  1902 

Humphreys,  J.   F  
Harrington,  R.    J  
Hunter,  D.  C  
Halloway,  H.    H  
Hinckley,  G   W 

....  1904 
1906 
1906 
1906 
1907 

Griswold,  H.    S  
Gesner,  C.  M  
Grant,  A.  A  

.  .  .  .  1902 

.  .  .  .  1903 

.  .  .    1903 

Horn,  A.  A  
Howden,  G.  A  

....1907 
....  1907 

Grover,  O.    F  
Geckler,  G.  C  
Grover,  C.    D  
Geissler,  C.  G  

.  .  .  .  1903 
.  .  .  .  1904 
....1904 

•  190=1 

Hart,  F.    S  
Hepburn,    J.    E  
Howard,  L.   A  
Hunter,  W  

....  1909 
1910 
1910 
1910 

Gilligan,  W  
Gleason,  C     A.  ... 

—  1906 

1906 

I 
Ino-alls    F     C 

1896 

Gilde,  A.    E.. 

1907 

Ingraham      E    R 

IQO^ 

Gilbert,  A.  L  

.  .  .  ,  1909 

Ingraham,  C.    H  

....  1909 

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Jackson,  E.    Q 1898 

Judson,  D.  R 1900 

Joslyn,  L.    J 1908 

Jamieson,  H.    H 1908 


Lampson,  H.  E 1910 

Lange,  W.  A 1910 

Lutolf,  H.  W 1910 

M 


Middlebrook,  L.  F 1896 

Meek,  W.  L 1896 

Kelton,  R.  H.  C 18^6      Morrell,  D.    J 1896 

Keys,  F.  R 1896      Malm,  O.    W 1896 

Kohn,  E.  J 1897      Maxim,  H.  P 1896 

Kenyon,  L.  W 1897      McCreary,  R.  M 1896 

Kowalsky,  F.  E 1898      McManus,  J.  W 1896 

Kenyon.  I.    R 1900      Miller,  G.   P 1896 

Kelley,  M.  F 1902      Miller,  H.   1 1896 

Kress,    L 1903      Morgan,  J.   H 1896 

Kane,  T.  R 1903      Morris,  S 1898 

Koenig,  O.,  Jr 1904      Martin,  G.   R 1898 

Kirbell,   E 1905      Mather,  F.    M 1897 

Kimberly,  R.  A 1907      Morgan,  V.    F 1897 

Kuehns,  R.  B 1908      Moses,  L.     K 1898 

Kavanaugh,  T.  J 1910      Magnel,  A.    E 1899 

Mohr,  F.  L 1899 

Miller,  F.     B 1900 

Larkum,  H.  H 1896      Maslen,  G.    S 1901 

Larkum,  W.   N 1896      McClunie,    F.    B 1904 

Le  Fever,  A.    P 1898      Mandigo,  W.    G 1900 

Long,  M.    C 1898      Murphy,  M.   J 1901 

Lockwood,  N.  L 1900      McDonald,  C.    H 1902 

Langrish,  E.   J.,  Jr 1900      Merriman,  H.     E 1002 

Liebcrt,  E.   T 1900      Marsden,  F.  L 1903 

Lycett,  F.    W 1901       Meyrs,  C.  L 1903 

Leclair,  M.   J 1902      Marcy,  M.  H 1903 

Lawler,  E.   R 1903      McCaw,  J.  0 1903 

Lewis,  H.    M 1904      Morris,  R 1905 

Livingston,  W.  R 1904      Moss,  A 1905 

Lesnick,  F.  G 1904      Meyer,  W.     H 1904 

Lewis,  W.  S 1905      Malloy,  E.  J 1904 

Lewis,  F.    C 1906      Mclntyre,  J 1905 

Lewis,  W.   D 1906      Marley,  J.    VV 1905 

Lathrop,  B.  S 1906      Mahoney,  J.  J 1905 

Loveland,  F.,    Jr 1907      Marsden,  L.  E 1907 

Lilley,  F.    S 1908      Mclntyre,  F.   E 1907 

Lambe,  G.   M 1909      McAlpine,  K.  J 1907 

Lyman,  J.  E 1909      McDonald,  R.  H 1907 


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Maude,  G.    H 1908 

Moriarty,  J.  J 1908 

Madden,  E.    F 1909 

McGee,   J.    F 1909 

Mulligan,  A.  J 1910 

Morgan,  S.    N 191 1 

N 

Northam,  R.    C 1896 

Newell,  J.    H 1896 

Nutter,  H.  Y 1896 

Northam,  E.    T 1898 

Noble,   E.   J 1898 

Neilson,  C.    C 1898 

Norton,  F.   C 1899 

Nooney,  E.  DeW 1903 

Nuttall,  W.  H 1903 

Nichols,  G.    A 1908 

O 

Osgood,  W.  J 1896 

Oaks,  E.  A.,  Jr 1897 

Owens,  T.  S.  J 1900 

O'Brien,  T 1904 

C'Laughlin,  H 1909 

P 

Parker,   F 1896 

Perkins,   L.   B 1896 

Peltier,  F.  H 1896 

Phillips,  T.  V.  C 1897 

Pierce,   F.   A 1897 

Pychon,  L.  F.  L 1898 

Pierson,    W.    W 1900 

Palmer,   R.    C 1900 

Perkins,  A.  L 1902 

Perkins,  F.  A 1904 

Pitney,   L.   A 1905 

Pairman,  J.  R.,  Jr 1908 

Pollock,    J.    F 1909 

Pitney,   J.    H 1910 

R 

Rice,   C.   D 1896 

Root,  L 1896 

Relyea,  C.  A 1897 

Ripley,  W.  C 1898 


Root,  J.    B 1898 

Reed,  G.  R 1898 

Roberts,  E.  L 1900 

Roberts,  W.  C 1903 

Reed,  E.  F 1902 

Relyea,  C.  F 1904 

Roberts,  J.    J 1905 

Rathburn,  C.    E.,    Jr 1905 

Root,  E.  J 1903 

Ring,  F.  E 1904 

Reisel,  G.  L 1904 

Ritchie,  J.     H 1905 

Rancor,  R.  S 1906 

Reeves,  W.    A 1907 

Ramagge,   A.    H 1908 

Roberts,  K.  E 1910 

Richard,  J.  S 1910 

S 

Schriviner,  W.   H 

Seymour,  F.     P 

Stevens,  H 

Saunders,  C.    C 1898 

Seaver,  F.    A 

Schwerdtfeger,  O.  M 1898 

Scoville,  A.    W 1897 

Scoville,  L.  H 1897 

Storrs,  H.    E 1897 

Sheperd,  F.  F 1898 

Sanford,  H 1898 

Schwirz,  M.  H 1899 

Sparks,  L.    W 1900 

Scoville,  P.  D 1900 

Saunders,  A.  H 1899 

Sparks,    C.    H 1899 

ScanJon,    E.    M 

Sweeney,    F 

Steele,  C.  W 1900 

Standisli,    H.    A 1900 

Standish,    F.    A 1900 

Smith,  F.  E 1901 

Strong,  L.    P 1901 

Shea,  C.  D 1902 

Squires,    G.   T 1903 

Schneider,  H 1904 


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Storrs,  H.  H 1904 

Scofield,  H.  M 1905 

Sadler,  L 1907 

Southergill,  C.  R 1906 

Smythe,  A.   F 1906 

Stitt,   D.  F 1906 

Sargeant,  E.  L 1907 

Smith,  T.   H 1907 

Shea,  E.  F 1909 

Slate,  H.  C 1909 

Smith,  H 1908 

Storey,  A.   N.,  Jr 1909 

Smith,  W.  G 1911 

Smith,    F.  H 1911 


Tyler,  C.    M 1901 

Tucker,   P.    E 1902 

Thompson,  C.  W 1902 

Trude,   A.   T 1902 

Trimble,   J.    F 1903 

Talcott,  M.   C 1898 

Tregoning,  W.    C 1897 

Twardoks,  J.  F 1898 

Tinkham,  G.    H 1898 

Tobey,    E.    C 1900 

Tolhurst,  W.    C 1904 

Thurber,  L.   A 1904 

Tefft,  L.  W 1905 

Treat,  H.  L 1905 

Tansey,  J.  J 1906 

Thompson,   P.   G 1907 

Tobin,  M 1909 

Thompson,  H.  A 1909 

Tuverson,  H.    S 1910 

U 
CJhler,  J.  K 1898 


Vaile,  E.  B 1902 

Vanas,  A 1907 

Victor,  G 1909 

Vosburgh,  R.  D 1910 

W 

Wilson,   L.    B 1896 

Walsh,  J.  G 1896 

Wightman,  A.  H 1896 

Williams,  C.  C 1896 

Winslow,  F.  G 1896 

Woodward,  C.  S 1896 

Woodbridge,    H.    K 1897 

Wilcox,   G.   E 1897 

Welles,  T.    D 1858 

Welles,  R.  B 1898 

Willard,   W.   L.,   Jr 1900 

Watson,  J 1900 

Wilson,  W.  W 1899 

Williams,  R.    H 1899 

Way,    H.    P 1899 

Warner,  E.  W 1899 

Woodford,  B.   C 1901 

Wiley,  H.    A 1901 

Wyllie,  R.  B 1904 

Wakeman,  W.  M.,  Jr 1905 

Watson,  A.    B 1906 

Woodward,  B.  P 1906 

Walters.  A.   C 1906 

Wells,    H.   L 1907 

Whiting,  C.   H 1910 

Warner,  B.  C 1909 

Welles,   J.    D 1898 

W ,  R.   B 1897 

Y 

Young,   F.   L 1898 

Yorgenscn,  P.  L.   L 1899 

Young,  J.  B.,  Jr 1809 


DIVISION   PIN 


A     000023260     3 


